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As if this wasn’t bad enough, an undercover video shows chickens being thrown, kicked and slammed into transport cages by workers at a Mississippi farm.

Why factory farming is far worse than you thought
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USDA to allow chickens from the US to be shipped to China
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The terrible suffering behind free range chicken farming
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Dog and Cat Meat and Fur Trade Around The World

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Cat trade

The dog and cat meat trade is a multi-billion dollar industry that exists all over Asia and in Hawaii, Mexico, the Arctic and Antarctic, more than twenty countries in Africa and parts of India. Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 30 million dogs are killed and eaten every year, primarily in Asia.

China has a long history of eating dogs and the dog and cat meat and fur trade is more prevalent in China than anywhere else in the world, and it is estimated that 15 million dogs and cats are eaten there annually. Some figures say 18 million which is about 50,000 per day. Even so, dog and cat meat is not part of mainstream Chinese culInary culture and in a 2016 poll, 70% claimed they had never eaten it.

Yulin is a 10-day long festival held in the city of the same name in southern China celebrating the summer solstice where 10,000 dogs and cats are killed and eaten every year. Far from being ancient or traditional, Yulin was created recently in 2009 to bring business to a place which had been economically depressed and it has been successful in doing so. What many do not realise is that Yulin happens all year round, all over the Chinese countryside. Yet we are led to believe that dog meat farms do not exist in China but, while they may be mostly on a fairly small scale, sadly they do.

Countries that rely heavily on Western tourism, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, often attempt to deny that the trade exists within their borders. While some of these countries have histories of dog eating, others only did so during times of famine, such as South Korea, which once considered eating dog shameful.

Indonesia – 1 million tortured on the street.

Cambodia does not have much of a cat meat trade and most of the dogs are trafficked by dog meat traders who exchange plastic buckets and pots and pans for village dogs. In Cambodia, dogs are traditionally eaten at celebrations such as weddings.

Philippines: Half a million dogs are slaughtered annually in the Philippines. In the capital city of Manila, the law specifically prohibits the killing and selling of dogs for food except in certain circumstances including research and animal population control. The dog meat trade there is primarily centered in the northern provinces. Historically, it was associated with celebratory events and rituals of mourning and only affected a small number of dogs. However, over the past 25 years, the dog meat trade has rapidly increased for commercial rather than cultural reasons.

Vietnam: Dog meat is eaten throughout Vietnam where at least five million dogs and one million cats are killed and eaten every year to use as food and medicine.

Taiwan: In 2017, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to outlaw the consumption of dog and cat meat. Anyone who bought or ate the meat could be fined up to around $8,000. Taiwan first made it illegal to slaughter dogs and cats and sell their meat in 1998, but the trade then went underground. Taiwan has now increased the fines and those who cause deliberate harm to a cat or dog can be fined up to $65,000, and serve two years of jail time.

South Korea is open and unapologetic about its taste for dog meat. South Korea is famous for their horrific dog farms, where dogs are bred for food in the most appalling squalor. During ‘Bokdays’, South Korea’s 60-day-long dog eating festival held annually from July through to August, approximately 15,000 dogs and several thousand cats lose their lives each day, all in the name of gastronomic pleasure and cultural superstition.

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In South Korea’s live dog and cat meat markets, terrified dogs and cats are brutally slaughtered in front of diners including children who may stand and watch, seemingly unaffected as they wait for their meals or elixirs to be ‘prepared’. Typically, tourists and non-Koreans are not allowed in this market where people can pay extra to have the dog of their choice “tenderized” in the old-fashioned way or what many would call the preferred way,

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No meat industry is without cruelty, however, what truly separates this meat trade from others throughout the world is the extreme level of brutality and pain that the animals suffer.

Depending on the country, many of the dogs that end up in the markets are raised specifically for their meat, while others are lost or stolen pets. Some still wear their collars and tags as they are crammed into small wire cages – sometimes twenty-five dogs in one cage – and sold to slaughterhouses by cruel traffickers. Most dog meat dealers and butchers come from a criminal element and are often members of underground gangs, which commonly operate the dog and cat meat trades in these countries.

In every country where dog meat is eaten, the people who do these things believe that the more intense the fear and torture experienced by the animals, the better flavour the meat will have.

Transported on lorries often for long distances, the dogs and cats are crammed into cages so small they can’t move. They travel sometimes for days in hot or cold weather with no food or water so that many die, or else survive only to meet a brutal death at the slaughterhouse or market.

Dogs and cats are ‘tenderized’ prior to death via malicious practices including combinations of hanging, bludgeoning, stabbing, electrocuting, burning, boiling and skinning alive.

Machines are commercially available made especially to help torture and skin the animals alive with a rotating drum for the removal of their fur. To make that easier by softening their skin often they are put alive into pots of boiling water.  This is all carried out in front of the dogs waiting to be tortured and killed so that they experience the maximum terror possible.

The belief is that by stimulating as much adrenaline as possible through the animal’s body before the moment of death the meat will be more tasty and healthful.

In many cases, the dogs and cats are not given any food or water, and sometimes their food is their companions who die and then are boiled whole in a pot. Oftentimes they are fed unpalatable food just to fatten them up for slaughter and if they refuse to eat it due to traumatization it is forced down their throats through pipes in a similar way to geese force-fed for foie gras so that sometimes they choke to death or die of suffocation.

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In China and South Korea, for example, a common superstition is that eating tough dog meat makes men strong and sexually potent. While soup made from cat meat provides health benefits, cures ailments and wards off bad luck. There is no scientific proof to support these claims and if anything, eating the meat of animals that are stressed, sick and near death due to rough handling, horrendous transport conditions and exposure to communicable diseases including rabies, is extremely deleterious to human health.

Despite the fact that it is illegal to eat dog meat in many of these countries, the dish continues to be popular due to weak law enforcement and the absence of enforceable companion animal welfare laws.

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Any dog can end up in the meat trade, former animal companions, stolen pets, purebreds such as cocker spaniels, poodles, labradors, ShihTzus, lhasa apsos, schnauzers, maltese terriers, beagles, dogs from puppy mills, shelters, farmed dogs and dogs sold at closed dog auctions.

These are animals who were either street dogs, stolen pets or bred for the purpose of eating sometimes in the most appalling circumstances imaginable. The places where they are kept are filthy, cold and damp. They have no comforts whatsoever and hell, terror, pain and death is all that there is around them – what is more, much of that is intentional.

Many defend dog and cat eating as a country’s right to follow its ‘cultural tradition’. Yet throughout human history there have been numerous horribly cruel practices that have been banned as societies became more civilized and compassionate.

After all, slavery and human sacrifice were once considered ‘cultural traditions’. The ‘tradition’ of eating dog and cat meat is no different.  We believe that any country that supports or turns a blind eye to such malicious cruelty – whether toward humans or animals – has no right to call itself ‘civilized’.

Through the mission to spread global awareness, promote humane education and persuade governments to enact strict and enforceable animal welfare legislation, the vision of charities working to end this trade is that one day companion animals throughout the world will never again be victims of torture for the purposes of using them as food and in the fur and skin trade.

Skinned Alive – the Trade in Cat and Dog Fur

Imagine someone stealing your cat or dog and skinning it alive before it dies a slow, agonising death.

Yet, as hard as it is to imagine, this is the daily reality for over two million domestic animals every year in China.

Fuelled by the insatiable demands of a cruel and callous fashion industry, it is estimated that 20 million cats and dogs, along with 40 million other animals, are slaughtered for their fur and sold internationally.

Innocent cats and kittens are strangled and slit open while other cats watch terrified, the little kittens among them paralysed with fear trying to make themselves invisible, all awaiting the same fate.

The dogs are tethered by a wire noose, then stabbed in the groin, the lucky ones bleed to death before being skinned, while those less fortunate are skinned once blood loss renders them too weak to struggle. Some desperately try to escape in a pool of blood. This method of slaughter causes least damage to the animals’ fur, thus preserving its market value.

A recent undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and investigative journalist Manfred Karreman exposed one of the dirtiest of the fur trade’s secrets. They followed the blood trail across three continents and filmed cats and dogs being beaten, strangled and stripped of their fur. They filmed the whole gruesome business from the Chinese slaughterhouses to the European auction houses.

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In March 1999, BBC2’s Newsnight exposed a London fur company, Alaska Brokerage owned by Peter and Carol Bartfield, demonstrating that they were willing to trade in cat and dog fur – although the firm claims that it has no association with the extreme cruelty exposed by the HSUS and Karreman. The Newsnight programme further pointed out that the trade in cat and dog skins in Europe is legal and fur does not have to be labelled by species or even as real fur.

While many people know that all animals killed for their fur suffer terribly, few are aware of the grisly killing methods: the gassing, lethal injection, neck-breaking and anal electrocution. But the film of cats and dogs, collected as part of the HSUS and Karreman investigation, shows some of the most shocking footage ever shot.

As well as dogs being tied by the neck, stabbed in the groin and left to bleed to death, cats and kittens killed by being hung from a rope and strangled, investigators witnessed cats being hung by a wire noose while water was forced down their throats through a hose until they drowned. The film is silent, but it shows the animals’ extreme pain and distress as they struggle fully conscious and bleeding.

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“It was terrible”, recalls Karreman. “I saw a cat with her fur being ripped off its back, screaming for a whole minute. I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and I can still hear her screaming. I still see their faces, the terror and pain in their eyes; and I hear their desperate cries”.

Following the HSUS exposé, America was outraged and the government acted immediately and outlawed the import, export and sale of products made with dog and cat fur. The US Dog and Cat Protection Act 2000 requires all fur products, however small, to be DNA tested. Violators are liable to six months imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Unfortunately, most EU countries, particularly Britain, seem reluctant to stop this horrific trade. The US ban, however, means that more of these products are now likely to be imported into the EU and Britain.

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There is further concern that consumers may not be aware that the fur-trimmed clothing and accessories, stuffed animals and pet toys they are buying may be made from dog and cat fur. The Department of Trade and Industry has long been aware that ‘there is a legitimate trade in cat skins’ and last year, over 500 tonnes of fur, 66 tonnes classified as ‘other fur’ – the category under which cat and dog fur falls – was imported into the UK.

Dr Nick Palmer MP is the sponsor of an Early-Day Motion in the House of Commons which has the support of 224 cross-party MP and urges the government to follow the American precedent. At a recent Adjournment Debate in the House he spoke of the two million cats and dogs living and dying in appalling conditions each year in fur farms in the Philippines and China. He also noted that the British Fur Trade Association had promised not to deal in cat and dog fur, yet the Newsnight report had shown a “reputable member of the fur trade who was prepared systematically to mislabel cat and dog fur imports”.

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Mark Glover, award-winning campaign director of Respect for Animals, said they were “extremely disappointed with the government’s indifference. The US and Italy have banned such imports and the government themselves have described it as ‘abhorrent’, yet they are incapable of taking a moral position on anything”.

Alaska Brokerage’s Peter Bartfeld, formerly a director of the British Fur Trade Association, is secretive about his involvement in the fur trade. When I managed to track him at his home, after a series of failed attempts, he finally returned my call with unconcealed hostility. “I do not trade in cats and dogs”, he shouted, stuttering with fury. “And if you got your information from the animal rights people, they’re seriously misinformed. The BBC report is a completely bogus setup.”

Bartfeld has previously claimed that the cat skins they deal in come from vets and that they were already dead when acquired. A 1987 Financial Times article reported him as saying that “all European cat skins that are used in the trade come from dead animals that have been put to sleep by vets. Vets kill animals, not fur traders”.

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The BBC’s 1999 investigation into Alaska Brokerage’s secret activities revealed that the company was prepared to sell cat and dog pelts to anyone who was prepared to pay. BBC investigator Martin Wilson visited Alaska Brokerage and filmed Peter Bartfeld offering 10,000 ‘goupee’ (a term for dog fur) and 150,000 cat furs. Bartfeld explained that dog is labelled ‘goupee’ and cat ‘Jeanette’ or ‘Chinese cat’, adding that this deception is necessary ‘because of the sensitive nature of the fur business’. He boasted to the reporter that ‘whatever trade is being done in Britain, I’m the one doing it’.

A Companies House search reveals Alaska Brokerage International, formerly known as Lenhart & Rosenberg Ltd, has been trading since 1967, listing Peter Bartfeld, his American wife Carol and their 25-year-old son Gideon as joint directors. A worldwide operation with offices in London and New York and associated offices in Hong Kong (Bartfeld Trading Ltd), it is now solely a family-owned business with an ex-directory phone number.

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In China, the investigators discovered that cats and dogs were being raised on breeding farms, many small scale, but some were collected abandoned strays and some appeared to be stolen companion animals. Ironically, while long-haired cats are kept as pets in China, short-haired cats, especially ginger or grey tabbies were kept chained outside and raised for their fur.

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The larger breeding farms, which Karreman referred to as “worse than concentration camps”, kept up to 300 animals at a time in appalling, squalid conditions. They saw dogs, mostly pups under six months old, sitting in dark, windowless and bitterly cold sheds, surrounded by the bodies of dead dogs hanging from hooks. The dogs, chained by thin metal wire, were left with no food or water while they waited to be transported to slaughterhouses.

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This was how the dogs lived out their short, grim existence before being crammed into tiny, filthy cages or sacks to make the harrowing journey to the slaughterhouse – a trip which can take days while they suffered without food or water and many are injured and die.

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Karreman and his team risked their lives getting inside the slaughterhouses. “These places were very difficult to find and access was even more difficult. We pretended to be suppliers and after we established trust with the dealers, we got to accompany them to the farms and the slaughterhouses. These dealers and butchers are ruthless gangsters, they would have killed us if we were discovered. I received many death threats afterwards and continue to get them. But for me it was worth it because otherwise these things will never stop. And some good did come out of it.

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Increasingly, slaughterhouses are moved to remote jungle locations

“In the Philippines, the police raided some cat slaughter-houses after we gave them the addresses. They found thousands of cats who were about to be killed, about 30,000 stolen pets, which is one of the reasons the police raided it, because they were definitely stolen pets. And in Thailand they’re coming out with new animal protection laws because of the investigation.”

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However it is a different story in China, a country with one of the world’s worst animal abuse records. By the time the animals reach the slaughterhouse in the city of Harbin, many are sick and some are even dead. The investigators watched a truck arrive one evening, densely packed with dogs.

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“We had to watch these dogs being killed without showing any emotion”, Karreman says faintly in a strained, heartfelt voice. “It was a difficult, devastating experience, crying inside while speaking calmly. After a while your soul gets eroded. But it has to be done, otherwise you can’t deal with such people”.

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Designers Dolce Gabbana, who have always been big on fur, came up with a microskirt made entirely of “Chinese cat”. When groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) disclosed that this was, in fact, made from real domestic moggie, creating an uproar, D&G backtracked and claimed that it was actually ponyskin. “Well, if it’s not cat, why call it that?” says PETA’s Andrew Butler, adding, “Amazingly, they claimed that ponyskin was a euphemism for cat in Italian. When our Italian office asked for samples for DNA testing, they refused. And, of course, that one garment that was contentious has suddenly disappeared”.

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The fur renaissance, if you believe the hype, has started up again. “There is no fur renaissance”, says Gucci designer Stella McCartney, “It’s just the fashion industry’s sick, twisted little moment. Fur may be on the catwalk, but it’s not on the streets”. But perception is often stronger than the reality. The catwalks and fashion glossies are ablaze with animal prints and skins.

“These days nobody cool wears fur and there’s no excuse for wearing it”, says Andrew Butler: “Anyone who’s horrified that dogs and cats are kept in sickening, disgusting conditions, and that they suffer slow, brutal deaths, shouldn’t be buying fur because there’s no guarantee that the coat or the fur trim isn’t cat or dog. In fact, the likelihood is that it will be cat or dog because it’s cheaper to use”.

Dog and cat fur still being exported to the EU

SAFARUS Student Alliance for Animal Rights

Skinned Alive – Cats and Dogs Killed for the Fur Trade

Friend or Food? South Korea’s Cruel Dog Meat Trade

Gruesome Yulin Dog Festival Must End!

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Rescuing Homeless Pets from Shelters

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This is a list of rescue and transport organisations with links to helpful information on homeless pets and shelters and anything else related such as food, health, etc. CTRL F will search.

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Please note this list is a work in progress. It is updated about once a month.

Any GOLD text is a link, just right click on it to GO TO the link, or to COPY or SAVE then go to destination and right click PASTE to insert link.

There’s a lot of useful information and many links in this article. It’s all one page and definitely worth taking a little time to look through so you know what there is here.

Please use CTRL F to search 

Fostering
Facebook Advocacy and Rescues
Crossposting Guides
New York AC&C and NYC Rescues
Rescues for Senior and Special Needs Breed Specific and Rescues for Other Animals
Transport
Pets in Military Families
Organisations Offering Aid
No Kill Solutions
TNR and Helping Feral Cats
Hoarding Information and Resources
Scam Rescues
Shelter Reform Sites
General Information and Resources
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FOSTERING

Have you decided to rescue a cat on death row? Please step up and save a life. Cats and dogs of all ages are being put to death because there are not enough fosters. Many kill-listed cats have earned their ticket to freedom as ‘bathroom cats’ in foster homes for a short time and are now in loving forever homes. “I would rather cry watching them leave our home to live a life of happiness and joy in a loving home rather than cry because no one stepped up to help them and they died alone, frightened and sad in the shelter. Fostering saves lives, try it.”

Local campaigns to find fosters can be easily set up like this one
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090c48a9aa22a02-pcac3

Fostering a pet FAQs
http://www.petfinder.com/animal-shelters-and-rescues/fostering-dogs/fostering-a-pet-faq/

16 reasons to foster a shelter pet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/foster-shelter-pet_n_6720804.html

Reasons to foster
https://www.facebook.com/Petfinder/photos/a.475509018214.255612.8354538214/10152809169293215/?type=1

How to get started as a foster
http://support.washhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=volunteerfoster_foster

Guardian Angel Fostering
https://www.facebook.com/guardianangelpetfostering

Animal Rescue Foster Program
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Animal-Rescue-Foster-Program/128626147973

Fur Angels Foster Parent List
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fur-Angels-Foster-Parent-List/1513919568841095

National Rescue Adopt and Foster Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/344408295588711/

List of kitten nurseries state to state
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2015/02/26/kitten-nurseries.aspx

All states animal fosters
https://www.facebook.com/allstatesanimalfosters

Imagine pet rescue mainly for dogs anywhere foster scheme
http://imaginepetrescue.org/
https://www.facebook.com/imaginepetrescue?_rdr

FACEBOOK ADVOCACY AND RESCUES

Tagging local rescues when crossposting helps pets find homes

Animal rescues on Facebook listed by state etc.
http://www.advocateforsavingdogs.org/animalrescuesonfacebooklistedbystate.html

Animal rescue Facebook directory etc.
http://www.lacroixtees.com/fb_directory/animal-rescue/index.php

To find pets, rescues, or shelters by area etc.
https://www.petfinder.com/animal-shelters-and-rescues/search

To find rescues or shelters
http://www.adoptapet.com/animal-shelters

Rescues by state etc.
http://www.rescueme.org/states

Click this pic for a list of specialist and other rescues by area
http://www.rescuedismyfavoritebreed.org/

Bambi’s Hope rescue blogger links to shelters pullers and transporters
http://bambishoperescue.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/links-to-shelter-pullers-transporters.html

Shelter list by county for California only
http://www.rescuers.com/shelters.htm

CACC adoptable pets and info for those wanting to adopt
https://www.facebook.com/notes/cacc-adoptable-pets/wanting-to-adopt/352429148201954

Find a pet or rescue etc. here
http://www.adoptapet.com/cat-adoption

Animal Shelter adopt a pet; dogs, cats, puppies, kittens! Humane Society, SPCA. Lost and found data from hundreds of animal shelters in the US and Canada. Breed search, lost and found pet matching service. Can look up animals here with shelter’s zip code. Go to right side look for location then use this shelter list; left side click species; animals for adoption. It is updated every hour and will tell you how long an animal has been there and start getting twitchy when it approaches two weeks but if intake #’s are high, two weeks may not apply. Just need to move animals out asap
http://petharbor.com/

Rescue Reviews
http://www.rescuereview.co.uk/

CROSSPOSTING GUIDES

Network to reach many more people
http://1drv.ms/1Cy1Vli

The love/hate relationship of social media and rescue
https://bourbondog.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/the-lovehate-relationship-of-social-media-and-rescue/

Facebook in animal rights advocacy by Nicole Garner
http://1drv.ms/1B2o1pk

Using Facebook to help needy pets you might be doing it wrong
http://www.petsadviser.com/animal-welfare/social-media-rescue/

Click here for free Facebook course for animal rescue groups
http://www.rescuedismyfavoritebreed.org/FB2.htm

Crossposter’s guide also a Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/539984692705068/

Starting a Facebook thread for animals who need immediate help
https://www.facebook.com/notes/nong-obieta/starting-a-thread-for-urgent-animals-that-need-immediate-help/368901886494713

More immediate exposure on Facebook for urgent animals
https://www.facebook.com/notes/nong-obieta/for-more-immediate-exposure-for-your-urgent-animals/365626646822237

NEW YORK NYC AC&C SHELTERS AND RESCUES

If you are local to the NYC Tri-State area: New England, General North-east and serious about adopting or fostering this kitty, please email the URGENT help desk now at urgentassistancenyc@gmail.com. Experienced volunteers will guide you through the process.

Fostering is easy and saves lives. The rescue will cover vet bills for the duration of the foster. Help and advice is available from the rescue and other organisations. If you need advice and assistance speak to the current PODR Adminstrators.

Transport is provided for adoptions up to four hours out of NYC at no cost by Mayor’s Alliance for NYC Animals. Arrangements can be made to meet part-way. For fosters delivery is available within NYC and also sometimes out of town. They have been made to CT, PA, and NJ.

If you want to foster or adopt and need help or advice please email: help@urgentpetsondeathrow.org

The following is a list of rescues that might be able to assist. Remember, time is sensitive. They begin killing at 6am, the morning after these lists are posted.

Placing applications with more than one group increases the chances of someone being able to see and respond quickly, as this improves your chances of being approved. When at all possible, please try to fill out applications and get approved to adopt or foster BEFORE the animal is on ‘the list’ and it is at the 11th hour!

MANY RESCUES HAVE APPLICATIONS RIGHT ON THEIR SITE  When writing them, be sure to indicate the animal ID number, name and shelter location in the SUBJECT line. You must include all contact info for yourself, including email and phone.  Explain to them that the animal is on the ACC euthanasia list for the next morning and that you would like to foster/adopt.

List of up to date list of rescues approved to pull from NYC AC&C
https://www.facebook.com/notes/judith-mcaloney/nyc-animal-care-and-control-rescue-list-posted-7-30-2014/796972123656177?pnref=lhc

Urgent Pets on Death Row list of NY rescues
https://www.facebook.com/notes/pets-on-death-row-urgent-death-row-cats/rescue-contact-information/320666967994014

Urgent Pets on Death Row NYCACC information and news
http://www.urgentpetsondeathrow.org/category/news/incompetence-acc/

To foster or adopt an urgent cat from NYC
https://www.facebook.com/nycurgentcats/app_203351739677351

Helping out of state adopters/foster save from NYACC
https://www.facebook.com/groups/203804499685280/

BREED SPECIFIC, SPECIALIST RESCUES AND RESCUES FOR OTHER ANIMALS

This list includes some breed-specific rescues as well as rescues that specialize in animals other than dogs

Rescues for Senior and Special Needs

Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary Inc
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blind-Cat-Rescue-and-Sanctuary-Inc/121386005165

Blind/Deaf Shelter Dogs Networking
https://www.facebook.com/BlindDeafNetworking?fref=photo

Blind Deaf Disabled Injured Special Needs Dog Cat Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blind-Deaf-Disabled-Injured-Special-Needs-Dog-Cat-Rescue-Network/150735001663519?fref=ts

Red Hook Dog Rescue – Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Harriet Zucker
Email: hszucker@mac.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Hook-Dog-Rescue/102452760768?sk=wall

K9Kastle – NY
Mostly rescues small, elderly, or special needs dogs. Email
Tara at MaddieK9@aol.com, Emily at mle65@hotmail.com or Nancy at foreverbogie@aol.com for an application for adoption or fostering and they will gladly send you an application. Other email: K9Kastle@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/pages/K9Kastle/198020466874807#!/pages/K9Kastle/198020466874807?sk=info

Black Cats

Black cats Urgent Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/BlackCatsUrgentRescue

Black Cats in Need of Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-cats-in-need-of-rescueadoption/135042619878586

Black Cats Community
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Cats/163840368514

I Love Black Cats
https://www.facebook.com/LoveBlackCats

Black Cats Need Love
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50098066149/

Black Cats in Need of Rescue and Adoption
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-cats-in-need-of-rescueadoption/135042619878586

Black Cat Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/blackcatrescue

For the Love of Black Cats
https://www.facebook.com/pages/For-the-Love-of-Black-Cats-Black-Cat-Appreciation-Page/186841014709029

I Love Black Cats
https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-love-Black-Cats/94786207892

The Black Cat Society of GCHS
https://www.facebook.com/blackcatsocietyGCHS

Siamese Cats

List of Siamese rescues by area
http://siamese.rescueshelter.com/

Siamese Cat adoption blog site
http://siamese.rescueme.org/blog

Siamese Cat Rescue Center
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/Siamese%20Cat%20Rescue%20Center/keywords_top
http://va.siameserescue.org/
siamlist@siamlist.org
Tel (540) 672-6373

Siamese Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/siamese.rescueme.org?fref=ts

Siamese Angels
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Siamese-Angels/146193458859735?fref=ts

Siamese “Rehome” Angels
https://www.facebook.com/SiameseClAngels

Second Hand Siamese (Flowery Branch, Georgia)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Second-Hand-Siamese-Flowery-Branch-Georgia/264187896927783?fref=ts

Rocky Mountain Siamese Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/RMSiameseRescue

Southern California Siamese Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-California-Siamese-Rescue/99634791910
http://cs.siameserescue.org/

Siamese Cats: Finding Rescues, Homes and Love! (Join)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/142064669162668/

Dogs Cats and Other Animals

German shepherd rescues by state
http://www.agsra.com/listings.html

Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel Rescue
Adopt A Boxer Rescue
Adopt-A-Dog
All About Spay Neuter
All Sentient Beings
Almost Home Animal Rescue & Adoption
American Bulldog Rescue
American Bullmastiff Association Rescue Service
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
Angela’s Felines
Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)
Animal Center of Queens
Animal Haven
Animalkind
Animal Rescue Force (ARF)
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons
Animals Can’t Talk (ACT)
Animals Can’t Talk Rescue and Adoption (ACT Rescue and Adoption)
Animal Welfare Society
Anjellicle Cats Rescue
A Place for Us
Art for Animals
A Tail At A Time
Barbara the Cat Lady
Bideawee
Big Apple Bull Terrier Rescue
Bobbi and the Strays
Boxer Angels Rescue
Brooklyn Animal Action
Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition (BARC)
Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition
Cascade Beagle Rescue–East
Cat Assistance Inc.
City Critters
Cocker Spaniel Rescue of New Jersey
CSM Stray Foundation (USA) Inc.
Curly Tail Pug RescueCrested Guardians
Dalmatian Adoption
Derrek’s Gleeful Rescue
Destiny’s Pet ProjectDoberman Pinscher Club of America Rescue Committee
Dog Habitat Rescue
Eastern German Shorthaired Pointer Club Rescue Program
English Bull Terrier Rescue of New York & New Jersey
Eve’s Sanctuary
Feathered Friends Parrot Adoption
Feline Rescue Mission
Feline Rescue of Staten Island
Ferals in Peril
First Run Medical & Rescue Fund for Animals
For Animals, Inc.
Forgotten Friends of Long Island
For Our Friends
For the Love of Dog (Rottweilers)
Four Paws Sake NYC
Friendly Ferals
Friends of Rescued Mastiffs
German Shepherd Rescue of Central New York
German Shepherd Rescue of Southeastern Pennsylvania in Brooklyn, NY
Glen Highland Farm/Sweet Border Collie Rescue
Glen Wild Animal Rescue
GRROWLS (Golden Retriever Rescue Operated With Love Statewide)
Gotham City Kitties
Grateful Greyhounds
Green Mountain Pug Rescue
Heart and Hand Society
Heart and Soul Animal Rescue
HEART: Help Every Animal Restore Trust
Heavenly Huskies & Canine Companions
House Rabbit Society
Humane Society of New York
The Husky House
Internet Miniature Pinscher Service (IMPS)
Italian Greyhound Rescue NYC (IGRNYC)
K9Kastle
Kitten Little Rescue
KittyKind
Kodi’s Club
Labrador Retriever Rescue – CT
Labs4Rescue
Patricia H. Ladew Foundation
Le Cats on the Water
Lifeline Animal Rescue
Linda’s Feral Cat Assistance
Little Shelter Animal Rescue & Adoption Center
Long Beach Humane Society
Long Island Bulldog Rescue
Long Island Golden Retriever Rescue
Long Island GreyHound Transfer
Long Island Labrador Retriever Rescue
Louie’s Legacy Animal Rescue
Louis Animal Foundation
Loving Touch
MetroMalts: Metropolitan Maltese Rescue
Mid-Atlantic Basset Hound Rescue
Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue League
Mighty Mutts
Miss Rumples for Small Dogs
Mountain Rottie ResQ (MRR) of New York
Neighborhood Cats
New England Border Collie Rescue
New England Old English Sheepdog Rescue
New Rochelle Humane Society
NJ Schnauzer Rescue Network
Northeastern Boxer Rescue
Northern New England Dog Rescue
North Fork Animal Welfare League
North Shore Animal League America
NYC Shiba Rescue
Only Hope Cat Rescue
Orphaned Pets, Inc.
Paws To Love Adoptions
People for Animals
Peppertree Rescue
Pet Adoption League Inc./Chow Rescue of NY
PET-I-CARE NYC Adoption Program
P.L.U.T.O. Rescue of Richmond County
Poor Animals of St. Francis
Posh Pets Rescue
Rabbit Rescue & Rehab
Rawhide Rescue
Ready for Rescue
Red Hook Dog Rescue
R.S.V.P. Inc. (Responsible Solutions for Valued Pets)
Russell Refuge (Jack Russell Terriers)
Safe Hounds Beagle Rescue
S.A.V.E. Animal Rescue
Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue and Adoption Center
SaveKitty Foundation
Save Our Strays
Scottish Terrier Club of Greater New York
Sean Casey Animal Rescue
The Sheltering Wing Bird Preservation and Adoptions
Shelter Survivors
Shore Hearts Golden Retriever Rescue
Small Paws Rescue (Bichon Frise)
Social Tees Animal Rescue
SPCA of Connecticut
Staten Island Council for Animal Welfare (SICAW)
Stray from the Heart
Tails of Courage
Tavi & Friends / Tavi’s Curls
Tigger Foundation
Tiny Treasures Rescue
Treasured k9s
Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue
Tri-State Weimeraner Rescue
Underdog ResQ
United Action for Animals
Urban Cat League
Waggin’ Train Rescue
Waggytail Rescue
Willing Hearts Dalmatian Rescue
Woof Dog Rescue
The Worthy Pause Thrift & Gift Shop
Zani’s Furry Friend

TRANSPORT

There are many animal transport rescue groups that are FREE or cheap!! Don’t look at the sadness in a pet’s eyes and say: “Aaaww, I’d like to adopt him, but he’s too far away…” Follow these steps find a rescue and transport and he’s as good as yours!

First you have to find two rescues, one where the pet is and one where you are. They have to be put in touch with each other so your local rescue can do the home inspection for the rescue local to the shelter.

Each rescue will have their paperwork for her to fill out. Of course the first step is to notify the shelter that the pet is wanted (by phone AND EMAIL)

Don’t tell them too much, they are on a need to know basis. Some of them will try and throw a wrench into it.

Warnings

Most transport groups are run by rescuers, many on Facebook, and care about animals. Beware of rogues though who only care about the money to be made.  There is only one well known such transport. Please use the contact form if you know of another transport that ought to be on this list.

Underground Railroad Rescued Kitty Network (URRKN) on Facebook run by Tina Lablanc
http://urrknexposed.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/urkkn-or-underground-railroad-rescued-kitty-network/

Air Travel

Air travel is not recommended with the commercial airlines in the normal way as animals are put in the cargo hold. The cargo areas are not temperature controlled, and especially in the winter and summer months, they can be uninhabitable, meaning that animals may not survive. There is one airline that has a good reputation for taking care of animals.

Forum discussion
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g1-i26969-k5959146-Best_airline_to_travel_with_pets-Traveling_with_Pets.html

Air Animal pet movers since 1977
http://www.airanimal.com/

No pet is too far too save!!

Imagine Home
https://www.facebook.com/imaginehomeorg

Kindred Hearts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/kindredheartsTC

Pets Transport Network Association (PETNA) run by Facebook ARAs and rescuers
http://dog-book.org/

Animal Transports Globally
http://advocateforsavingdogs.org/animaltransportsglobally/transportlinksintheus.html

Animal Transport Assistance for Precious Lives Needing Help
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Animal-Transport-Assistance-for-Precious-Lives-Needing-Transport-Help/125026690921055

Animal Transport Assistance for Precious Lives Needing Urgent Help
https://www.facebook.com/groups/405354889499828/

Animal Transport List for Take Action to Help Ban Pet Gas Chambers
https://www.facebook.com/notes/take-action-help-ban-animal-gas-chambers/transport-resource-list-/253133788100205

A New Leash on Life Rescue Transport
https://www.facebook.com/groups/587933794581456/

Animal Rescue Flights
http://www.animalrescueflights.org/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/animalrescueflights

Pilots & Paws
http://pilotsnpaws.org/
https://www.facebook.com/pilotsnpawsfanpage

Wings of Rescue
www.wingsofrescue.org

Rogers Rescue
http://www.rogersrescues.com/opportunities/

Operation Roger Truckers Pet Transport
http://operationroger.rescuegroups.org/

Johns C2C Transport LLC
https://www.facebook.com/JohnsC2CTransportLLC

California Animal Rescue Transportation
https://www.facebook.com/pages/California-Animal-Rescue-Transportation-CART/132565503430064
Also comments for incoming/outgoing out of state transports

START Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Team
https://www.facebook.com/startrescueteam

Brett Adams 714 507-0566
https://www.facebook.com/brettly99?fref=ts
Based in Anaheim, Ca., hauls for several of us on the West Coast from Ca. to WA/BC

Royce Bordes
Angels n’ Paws 909-743-4656
https://www.facebook.com/royce.bordes?fref=ts
http://angelsnpaws.com/transport-request-form.html
SoCal area to WA/BC border & more

Kevan Boston 760-518-7445
https://www.facebook.com/kevan.boston
SoCal area to WA/BC/Montana

4 PAWS Rescue Inc.
http://www.all4pawsrescue.com/Adopting-a-Pet.html

Peace Love Paws Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/PeaceLovePawsRescue

Pet Express Animal Transport
https://www.facebook.com/petexpress

Animal Transport Resources
http://www.animalresourcesinc.com/transport.php

Best Friends Animal Society
http://bestfriends.org/Resources/Resources-for-Rescuers/Help-for-Individuals/Animal-Transport-Resources/

Animal Resources Inc
http://www.animalresourcesinc.com/transport.php

Companion Pet Rescue & Transport of W Tn Inc
https://www.facebook.com/CompanionPetRescue

John Bloom C2C LLC coast to coast transport
https://www.facebook.com/JohnsC2CTransportLLC
541-232-9958

Freedom Train Animal Rescue Transports
www.freedomtraintransports.com
rhonda @ freedomtraintransports . com

Keith’s Rescue Transports
https://www.facebook.com/keithsrescuetransports

Debie Brown: Will transport up to 150 miles for free from any Los Angeles, CA Shelter. All anyone has to do is call her at (+1) (310) 528-6255. If she doesn’t answer she’ll call you right back.

Christopher Boyd transport at (+1) (618) 201 4449

John Hautzinger: transport within a decent range of LA shelters and only gas money is charged

The Road Home Transport (+1) (626) 502 6251

Rusty to the Rescue
https://www.facebook.com/RustyRescue?fref=ts
(+1) (714) 415 8343
rustytotherescue@gmail.com

Suzy at PET TAXI in California at (+1) (424) 653-4565 National USA

GROWL Rescue & Transport
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GROWL/257318230987994?ref=hl

Companion Pet Rescue & Transport of W. Tn., Inc.
http://www.facebook.com/CompanionPetRescue

Rescue Puppies on the Move: community
https://www.facebook.com/OperationHolly?fref=ts

Rural Shelter Transports
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rural-Shelter-Transports/177977083829

Suzanne Shaps Dog Rescue and Transport Postings
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suzanne-Shaps-Dog-Rescue-and-Transport-Postings/242459559661

Animal Rescue Flights
https://www.facebook.com/groups/animalrescueflights/

P.E.T.S. Animal Rescue Road Trip LLC
http://www.petsllc.net/index.php
https://www.facebook.com/petsllctransport?ref=stream&hc_location=stream
(+1) (877) 560-PETS or (+1) (877) 560-7387

Pets On Board Transport
https://www.facebook.com/PetsOnBoardTransport
petsonboardtransport@frontier.com
For a fast quote call: (+1) (888) 914–PETS or
(+1) (310) 899-6891

Holm to Home Transport Services
http://companies.findthebest.com/l/32011736/Holm-To-Home-Transport-Services-in-Cobleskill-NY
No website but transports everywhere
518-429-3518

Animal Rescue Flights
www.animalrescueflights.org

Fly Me Home for Pet Escorts from Egypt to Everywhere
https://www.facebook.com/groups/298138213667809/

ANOTHER LIST FOR TRANSPORT

Here is the list I use to find transporters. I have collected up through the months. I am still working on it. Some are paid but most are free. Some are actual transporter pages and some are pages to post your needs and then people will offer or you can ask to be added to a planned transport. Everyone is very helpful, Each one can be found on Facebook or the web, just type the name into the search in Facebook or Google.

Please try Rescue Road Warriors

Long distance ground transport, we specialize in private rides cross country. We also have local offices in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. Locally we offer pickup and drop off for daycares, boarding, and vet appointments.

Dog Gone Taxi
Woodinville, WA 98072
info@doggonetaxi.com
Phone 1 888.761.8626
www.doggonetaxi.com

Martha’s Mutt Movers/The Rescue Railroad

Animal Transport Group

Rescue Ride Share

“Take Me Home” Rescued Pets Transport Network

Transport for NY rescue dogs

Animal Rescue Facebook Directory

Comin’ Home

Crazy Canine Crew Pet Transport LLC

Travel all parts of Ohio and Western Pa
234 567 7372 and on Facebook

Debbie Brown 310-528-6255
Phone is the best way to get in touch with me if I’m needed. 150 miles from Los Angeles, Orange County area

John Duggins
Drive 48 states
Phone 540-256-4047

PA/MD area: TulipsInBloom_56@yahoo.com

Sharon K Chaffee: shavayna@comcast.net

Stephanie Goehring: stephanieann1984@gmail.com

Bobbi McGettigan: dogmistress3@gmail.com

Rachel Vaughn: ocunicorn@yahoo.com

Donna Zeigfinger: dzeigfinge@aol.com

Theresa Jones Zuccarello: tres@onebox.com

Myth Medieval Celtic through south central PA, including through Philly into Central Northern Maryland http://www.facebook.com/mythmedievalceltic

Tammy King
Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000288648356

Martica Heanor
Can help with a leg from NYC to NJ or PA http://www.facebook.com/MarticaHeaner

Rescue My Paws
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rescue-My-Paws-USA-and-UK-Transport/163728846978977?sk=wall

Rescue Ride Share, contact RescueRideShare@groups.facebook.com
http://www.facebook.com/groups/RescueRideShare/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WPDIRECTORY/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WSAPR/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WSATR/

TRANSPORT BY STATE

By Joanie Zupan and Julia Hagan in FLORIDA TRANSPORT

Alabama
http://www.facebook.com/groups/194496253963426/

Alaska
http://www.facebook.com/groups/307239142635881/

Arizona
http://www.facebook.com/groups/259909724056663/

Arkansas
http://www.facebook.com/groups/200327370045229/

California
http://www.facebook.com/groups/147249168708051/

Canada
http://www.facebook.com/groups/192278714187879/

Colorado
http://www.facebook.com/groups/288699177828851/

Connecticut
http://www.facebook.com/groups/123784531065558/

Delaware
http://www.facebook.com/groups/291273340903528/

Kansas
http://www.facebook.com/groups/117019355076919/

Kentucky
http://www.facebook.com/groups/316156785078167/

Florida
http://www.facebook.com/groups/277745538931009/

Georgia
http://www.facebook.com/groups/284354844938649/

Idaho
http://www.facebook.com/groups/280363035335952/

Illinois
http://www.facebook.com/groups/191005787647779/

Indiana
http://www.facebook.com/groups/277286172312850/

Iowa
http://www.facebook.com/groups/191209274293951/

Louisiana
http://www.facebook.com/groups/182372935182918/

Maine
http://www.facebook.com/groups/217819394958007/

Maryland
http://www.facebook.com/groups/262260297154010/

Massachusetts
http://www.facebook.com/groups/243135745747035/

Michigan
http://www.facebook.com/groups/293367290684968/

Minnesota
http://www.facebook.com/groups/158703604226989/

Mississippi
http://www.facebook.com/groups/136552119785077/

Missouri
http://www.facebook.com/groups/255943827786925/

Montana
http://www.facebook.com/groups/318535158162090/

Nebraska
http://www.facebook.com/groups/274337092602009/

Nevada
http://www.facebook.com/groups/308339912511528/

New Hampshire
http://www.facebook.com/groups/299116690105962/

New Jersey
http://www.facebook.com/groups/203255346423395/

New Mexico
http://www.facebook.com/groups/184609804957395/

New York
http://www.facebook.com/groups/294448540575511/

North Carolina
http://www.facebook.com/groups/275412929169022/

North Dakota
http://www.facebook.com/groups/240799942646846/

Ohio
http://www.facebook.com/groups/278423082196836/

Oklahoma
http://www.facebook.com/groups/219371471467895/

Oregon
http://www.facebook.com/groups/245755308815788/

Pennsylvania
http://www.facebook.com/groups/138767612896362/

Rhode Island
http://www.facebook.com/groups/138767612896362/

South Carolina
http://www.facebook.com/groups/138370232933031/

South Dakota
http://www.facebook.com/groups/230261697039190/

Tennessee
http://www.facebook.com/groups/263180017065893/

Texas
http://www.facebook.com/groups/246019552118816/

Utah
http://www.facebook.com/groups/292264564128089/

Wyoming
http://www.facebook.com/groups/139585152814585

Operation Roger Truckers Pet Transport

Rescue Road Trips

Transpetters Pet Limousine Service

Animal Rescue Transfer System (ARTS)
Alberta CA
Getting animals to safety wherever that may be
animalrescuetransfer@gmail.com
http://www.animalrescuetransfersystem.org/

Camp Cupcake For Critters, LLC

Boarding / Critters on the Go!

Lending a Paw-Ground Transportation for Animal Rescue

Pet Airways

Pet Adoption Highway
PAHcoordination@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/PetAdoptionHighway

P.E.T.S. (Peterson Express Transport Service)
615 218 1589

SE

ANIMAL RESCUESUPERHIGHWAY.org
captten@msn.com home tel 540 837 1878
Bruce and Rachel Lockwood in Boyce VA
Donations toward fuel are appreciated, but not required

Road Dogs Transport, Katsrodeo’s transporting
2245 Sandpiper Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23456
Get directions phone 757 724 3921

Forgotten Angels Rescue & Education Centre
TN email info@farec.org
http://www.farec.org/transport.htm

Road Dogs Transport Inc Jackson TN
Tel 731-695-5790
zmollibo@gmail.com

Wheels4Paws NC
A caring organisation run by Pat Webb
http://wheels4paws.org/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/Wheels4Paws

H.O.P.E. Ground Services Burgaw NC
Dorothy Hall Desjarlais Tel 910-620-1001
Weekly transports NC, to VA, MD, DC, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA (outskirts), and NH
https://www.facebook.com/k9lifesavers/posts/444774864830

Rural Shelter Transports
Coordinating transports in select areas of SC/NC/VA/MD/DE/NJ/NY/MA to approved rescues
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rural-Shelter-Transports/177977083829?sk=timeline

Freedom Train Animal Rescue Transports
Transports south to north west
Anderson SC 29621 Tel 864-934-8496
getshelterpets@yahoo.com
rhonda@freedomtraintransports.com
https://www.facebook.com/FreedomTrainTransports
http://www.freedomtraintransports.com/

4 Paws Transport
Charleston, SC
info@4pawstransport.com
http://www.4pawstransport.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-Paws-Transport/278703651008

Dog Runner Pet Transport, LLC
1851 Fosterburg Road, Brighton, IL 62012
Tel 618 372 8521 Mob 618 977 7171 Fax 618 372 0086
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dog-Runner-Pet-Transport-LLC/110315582395190

Open Arms Dog Transport OH
http://www.openarmspoundrescue.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Arms-Pound-Rescue-Mercer-County/172264319475530

Cloud Nine Rescue
http://www.cloudninerescueflights.org

Pet Air
http://www.flypets.com/
flypetair@yahoo.com
Tel 816-471-3852

Throwaway Pups
www.throwawaypupstransport.webs.com
Brandy at throwawaypups@aol.com

Roads of Hope
http://roadsofhope.org/about.htmhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Roads-of-Hope-Animal-Rescue-Transport-Inc/306755079380660?sk=timeline

Truck ‘n’ Paws
www.trucknpaws.com

Dreaming My Way Home
http://www.dreaminmywayhome.org/

Animal Rescue Flights
www.animalrescueflights.org

Pet Friendly Travel
http://www.petfriendlytravel.com/airtravel

Safe Dog Express
http://safedogexpress.com/

Jay Richmond’s Pet Transportation 917 751 3406
Comfortable transport of rescue animals in the US http://www.jayrichmond.com/
jayrichmondproductions@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1496147526

PetTransportNet
Group for transporting Rescued Pets anywhere in North America – a group you’ll have to join with
petTransportNet@yahoogroups.com

Lucky Dog Rescue Flights 85
LUCKY-DOG 855 825 9364
info@LuckyDogRescueFlights.org
or call 85-LUCKY-DOG 855 825 9364

Colorado Animal Rescue Express (C.A.R.E.) http://www.caretransport.org/
Transport Coordinator
Linda Fox
nelliefoxus@yahoo.com,

Tullahoma Small Breed Rescue 931 393 3522
Tullahoma, TN 37388
traversa@gimail.af.mil

temersonb@peoplepc.com
A rescue friendly truck driver who regularly drives a route between Colorado and the East Coast

Companion Rescue & Transport, Nashville, TN 37221
Tel: 615 260 8473 or tel 731 217 6196
cprtransport@gmail.com

Sky Ark
Free air transportation
http://www.skyark.org/
P.O. Box 1553, Buena Vista, Colorado 81211
http://www.skyark.org/contact-us.html

Flying Paws
http://www.flyingpaws.org/
Message to be sent on contact page

BRATS Badger Rescue Animal Transport Services, Inc. http://www.bratstransport.org/
10602 N Port Washington Rd #204, Mequon WI 53092
Tel 414 322 1085
lmmitchell@charter.net

Alpha Dog Transport Inc
508 868 0642
https://alphadogtransport.com/

Pro Pet Transport
Professional Pet Transports Inc
59154 Trafton Lane OR 97845
John Day
pptoffice@pro-pet-transports.com
http://www.pro/-pet-transports.com/index.php

West Coast Dog Transports
https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Dog-Transports/152264598197667

Dogster Railroad
http://www.dogster.com/forums/Dogster_Railroad

Shelters and transport in KY
www.kycentral.org

Myth Medieval Celtic
Through south central PA, including through Philly into Central Northern Maryland http://www.facebook.com/mythmedievalceltic

Tammy King
Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000288648356

Martica Heanor
Can help with a leg from NYC to NJ or PA
http://www.facebook.com/MarticaHeaner
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rescue-My-Paws-USA-and-UK-Transport/163728846978977?sk=wall

Rescue Ride Share
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RescueRideShare/
RescueRideShare@groups.facebook.com

Tucker Fleiss Rescue/Transport in Los Angeles, CA
tuckerfleiss@yahoo.com

Kyle Young
www.AnimalRescueAndTransport.com
Tel: 661 874 7546
Volunteer with the Lancaster shelter

Animal Airlift
www.animalairlift.org

i95 transporters 352 585 0936
i95transporter@yahoo.com

Dana Stanley 870 331 3418
danastanley@windstream.net

Melinda Phelps Feicker 940 595 0949
melinda_33@msn.com

Fara John 315 427 3688
farasdanes@yahoo.com

TRANSPORTS ANYWHERE EAST OF TEXAS (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST)

Myrna Gaidry 515 707 4129
mgaidry@yahoo.com

P.E.T.S. LLC
Toll Free: 1 877 560 PETS 7387
Kyle 615 218 1589
info@petsllc.net
http://www.petsllc.net/index.php

Operation Roger 682 622 1172
operationroger01@yahoo.com
http://www.operationroger.rescuegroups.org/

PetRelocation 1 512 264 9800
info@petrelocation.com
http://www.petrelocation.com/

Animal Port Houston 281 821 2244
tom@pettransport.com
http://www.pettransport.com/1024/about.htm

Express Pet Transport 979 219 3686
eptransport@hotmail.com

AirVets Pet Relocation 972 591 1342
drlanders@airvets.com
http://www.airvets.com/

Continental Airlines
800 575 3335 or 832 235 1541
http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/content/travel/animals/default.aspx

AHeinz57 515 834 2635
Amy: aheinz@aheinz57.com
Kathy: kmcgee@aheinz57.com
http://www.aheinz57.com/about-us/

Animal Transporters (US and International) 310 821 5576
http://animaltransporters.com/international.asp

Flying Paws
http://www.flyingpaws.org/index.html

LNT Pet Transport
210 649 2004
210 722 4877

lntpettransport@aol.com
http://www.lntpettransport.com/

Pilots N Paws
info@pilotsnpaws.org
http://pilotsnpaws.org/

Rescue Road Trips
greg@rescueroadtrips.com
http://www.rescueroadtrips.com/Rescue_Road_Trips.html

SkyArk 719 207 8760
http://www.skyark.org/

Pet Airways 1 888 PETAIRWAYS
www.petairways.com

Animal Land Pet Movers
877 379 8625
http://www.petmovers.com/site/index.htm
info@petmovers.com

Animals Away 800 492 7961
http://www.animalsaway.com/

TLC Pet Transport
877 495 PETS
859 428 1677
travelcare@insightbb.com
http://www.tlcpettransport.com/index.php

Pet Express Transport Services
859 689 7387
pettransporting@yahoo.com
http://www.petexpresstransportservice.com/Home.html

Happy Tails Travel
1-800 323 1718 or 520 299 3315
Bridget@HappyTailsTravel.com
http://www.happytailstravel.com/index.php

Air Animal 800 635 3448 or 813 879 3210
http://www.airanimal.com/

AARK Air International 800 511 AARK or 815 627 3502
Cell: 630 542 9640
clay@aarkair.com
http://aarkair.com/default.jsp

Ace Relocation Services 585 637 2013
acerelocationservices@gmail.com
http://www.acerelo.com/ace/pets.html

American Airlines 1-800 433 7300

Delta Airlines 800 221 1212
http://www.delta.com/planning_reservations/special_travel_needs/pet_travel_information/index.jsp

Delta Cargo 1 888 736 3738
http://www.delta.com/business_programs_services/delta_cargo/products_rates_shipping/products/specialty_shipments/live_animals/pet_first/index.jsp

United Cargo 1 800 UA CARGO or 1 800 822 2746
http://www.unitedcargo.com/services/SpecAnimals.jsp

US Airways 800 428 4322
http://www2.usairways.com/en-US/traveltools/specialneeds/pets.html

Southwest Airlines 1 800 435 9792
http://www.southwest.com/html/travel-extras/pets/index-pol.html?int=GFOOTER-PRODUCTS-PETS

UShip
www.uship.com

Chihuahua Rescue and Transport
SouthwestCoordinator@chihuahua-rescue.com

EducationCoordinator@chihuahua-rescue.com
http://www.chihuahua-rescue.com/

All Breed Rescue (yahoo networking group)
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/allbreedrescue/
allbreedrescue@yahoogroups.com
allbreedrescue-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
allbreedrescue-owner@yahoogroups.com

Dogster Transport Discussion Forum
http://www.dogster.com/forums/Dogster_Railroad

Pawsitively Texas Volunteers
https://www.facebook.com/PawsTexas

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/
I-10_I-20_Rescue_and_Transport/
I-10 and I-20 Rescue and Transport (yahoo group)
I-10_I-20_Rescue_and_Transport@yahoogroups.com
I-10_I-20_Rescue_and_Transport-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I-10_I-20_Rescue_and_Transport-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/
I-35_135_335_Rescue_and_Transport/
I-35 Rescue and Transport (yahoo group)
I-35_135_335_Rescue_and_Transport@yahoogroups.com
I-35_135_335_Rescue_and_Transport-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I-35_135_335_Rescue_and_Transport-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
OnTheRoadAgain@yahoogroups.com
OnTheRoadAgain-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
OnTheRoadAgain-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/pettravel/
pettravel@yahoogroups.com
pettravel-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
pettravel-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RescueAngelsonWheels/
Recue Angels on Wheels (yahoo group)
RescueAngelsOnWheels@yahoogroups.com
RescueAngelsOnWheels-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
RescueAngelsOnWheels-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/RescueTransport/
escueTransport@yahoogroups.com
RescueTransport-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
RescueTransport-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://www.rollingrescue.info/
Rolling Rescues (yahoo group)
rollingrescue@yahoogroups.com
rollingrescue-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
rollingrescue-owner@yahoogroups.com

http://www.trucknpaws.com/TRUCK-N-PAWS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
TRUCK-N-PAWS-owner@yahoogroups.com

CLICK HERE FOR MORE TRANSPORT RESCUES

PETS IN MILITARY FAMILIES

Best Friends Placement for Pets of Military Families
http://bestfriends.org/Resources/Resources-for-Rescuers/Help-for-Individuals/Placement-for-Pets-of-Military-Families/

Operation Military Pets
http://spcai.org/get-involved/support-programs/operation-military-pets/

You get your deployment orders, and look at Fido, and wonder… “what am I going to do with my beloved furry friend?” Perhaps someone in your family or a friend can help you take care of your pet… A shelter? “No, I can’t do that to my faithful Fido”… This is such a difficult, stressful time to have to worry about Fido…

The good news is that there are organizations that can help you and your pet with temporary foster care. We have listed a few below. Contact them, and they will help you take care of your furry friend or point you in the right direction.

Reach Out Rescue & Resources
http://www.reachoutrescue.org/info/index

Pet resources for the military community
http://www.operationwearehere.com/Pets.html

Adopt-a-Pet helping PCS families
http://www.military.com/money/pcs-dity-move/adopt-a-pet-for-family-pcs.html

SPCA helps MilFams keep their pet
http://www.military.com/spouse/military-relocation/pcs-moves/spca-helps-milfams-keep-their-pets.html

Military foster program
https://pactforanimals.org/pacts-work/military-foster-program/

American Humane Association Fostering military pets
http://www.americanhumane.org/animals/adoption-pet-care/issues-information/fostering-military-pets.html

FOSTER military pets
http://fosterdogs.com/helping-owners-keep-their-dogs/military-pets.html

Four non-profit organizations helping military family
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/4-fantastic-non-profit-organizations-helping-military-families-and-companion-pets/

Sea Dog Inn helping military personnel with their pets
http://www.seadoginn.com/military.pdf

Military support & resources
http://www.sdhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=res_military_support

Placement for pets of military families
http://bestfriends.org/Resources/Resources-for-Rescuers/Help-for-Individuals/Placement-for-Pets-of-Military-Families/

Dogs on Deployment also for cats
http://dogsondeployment.org/

Operation Noble Foster
http://www.operationnoblefoster.org/

Guardian Angels for Soldiers Pets
http://guardianangelsforsoldierspet.org/

ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING FINANCIAL AID

http://www.dogheirs.com/dogheirs/posts/6603-resources-to-turn-to-if-you-are-having-trouble-affording-veterinary-care-for-your-dog

http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/pet-insurance-its-no-laughing-matter.html

http://www.smallpawsrescue.org/newsletters/images/finanhelp.html

http://www.animalfriendsrescue.org/financialassistance.html

http://www.browndogfoundation.org/home

http://www.care-evanston.org/financial.htm

http://www.carecredit.com/vetmed/

http://www.ccstcloud.org/EmergencyServices/goodsamaritanfundreferral.htm

http://www.catsincrisis.org/ (for injured cats)

http://fveap.org/ (cats)

http://www.imom.org/fa/index.htm

http://www.portlandoregon.gov/oni/article/289106

http://www.petco.com/petco_Page_PC_foundationprograms.aspx? 

http://animalcarefund.org/?q=helpful-resources (East Coast)

http://redpawemergencyreliefteam.com/mission/ (National)

http://rosesfund.org/

http://www.ruffrescue.org/about_us.php (West Coast)

http://https/www.facebook.com/SophiesEmergencyRescueFund

http://www.tailsofhopefoundation.org/ (East Coast)

http://www.themosbyfoundation.org/petpantry2010.html

http://thepetfund.com/

http://www.redrover.org/program/redrover-relief

http://www.dogcatadoption.com/help_available.html (AZ)

http://beingstray.com/dogs/financial-assistance-for-pets/

NO KILL SOLUTIONS

Transforming shelters to save more cats: a blueprint for change by Alley Cat Allies
https://www.alleycat.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=1481

Safety Net Program
http://www.718544pets.org/indexEnglish.html

To help animals, we’ve been told to do two things:

1.. Sign petitions on Facebook; and
2. Send money to the large, national organizations.

The problem is that Facebook petitions are often ignored and therefore mostly ineffective. And when it doesn’t simply sit in already bloated bank accounts, the money donated to the large, national organizations just as often is used to hinder, rather than assist, the cause in ending the killing of animals in shelters. Together, the ASPCA and HSUS take in roughly $300,000,000 per year yet have never created a No Kill community.

To save lives, animals in shelters need for people to do two different things:

1. Directly take animals out of harm’s way through rescue and 2. Reform shelters through legislation, litigation, and political advocacy.

In short, D.I.Y. Like the activist who started a No Kill movement in his community where he took on not only an entrenched shelter director, but also the mighty ASPCA, and won
http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/politadvocacy.pdf

Or the animal lover who became informed about the No Kill movement and immediately walked into his local shelter, announced, “There will be no more killing in the shelter,” and then proceeded to make it come true. Or the animal rescuer who almost single-handedly created the infrastructure for her local shelter to go No Kill
http://www.examiner.com/article/on-a-no-kill-mission-interview-with-kelly-jedlicki

Or the husband-and-wife team that began marketing shelter animals and holding offsite adoption events, resulting in adoption rates of over 95 percent for their community
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=6880

Or even the local volunteer group who took over operations of their shelter and now save well over 90% of the animals
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=14510

There are many ways to effectively join the No Kill revolution. Here’s one: create a blog that acts as a watchdog over sheltering issues in your community or state.

Two examples:

NJ Animal Observer writes on shelters in his home state of New Jersey
http://njanimalobserver.wordpress.com/

Fix NC who writes about shelter issues in her home state of North Carolina
http://fixnc.wordpress.com/

We need less Facebook petitions and less check writing and more people willing to stand up and expose the truth. We need more people willing to directly save animals from shelters intent on killing them through rescue.

We need more people willing to walk the corridors of power to lobby for reform
http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/toolkit/

Nathan Winograd’s Blog
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/

Animal Wise Radio on Animal Ark Shelter with Nathan Winograd
http://www.animalarkshelter.org/AWRListen.html

Get help to fight for shelter reform legislation, upcoming seminars, new guides, and updates on projects and campaigns here:

No Kill

A note on PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals known as PETA do a great deal of wonderful work helping animals. They are also responsible for destroying some homeless pets sending out entirely the wrong message to those who think it’s acceptable to hurt and kill animals.

Message - PETA kills

What’s behind PETA’s systematic killing of animals?
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=12558

Why PETA kills
http://www.whypetaeuthanizes.org/

Local US humane societies, of which many are kill shelters
http://www.humanewatch.org/shelters/

“If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.”

Nathan and guests talk about the shelters in the US, the HSUS and Wayne Pacelle here:

Nathan Winograd on Animal Wise Radio
http://www.animalarkshelter.org/AWRListen.html

Nathan Winograd on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/nathanwinograd

SHELTER REFORM SITES

Disturbing photos capture realities of euthanization at shelters
http://petapixel.com/2013/02/26/disturbing-photos-capture-the-realities-of-euthanization-at-animal-shelters/

Exposing animal abuse and neglect at shelters
https://www.facebook.com/ExposingAnimalAbuseandNeglect?fref=ts

Exposing the truth for victims of corrupt animal shelters
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Exposing-the-Truth-for-Victims-of-Corrupt-Animal-Shelters-and-Rescues/164533916960773?fref=ts

Dark places exposing animal shelter cruelty
https://www.facebook.com/pages/DARK-PLACESExposing-Animal-Shelter-Cruelty/115627088455785?fref=ts

ELSA Exposing the life of shelter animals
https://www.facebook.com/ELSA.PACIFIC?fref=ts

Kill shelters exposed name and shame
https://www.facebook.com/groups/killsheltersexpose/

The hidden truth behind the bars
https://www.facebook.com/TheHiddenTruthBehindTheBars?fref=ts

Used abused and thrown away
https://www.facebook.com/UsedAbusedAndThrownAway?hc_location=ufi

Shelter Exchange to help save pets
http://www.shelterexchange.org/

SCAM RESCUES

Great animal rescue or great scam a complete guide
http://petadvocatesnetwork.org/wordpress/2012/11/04/great-animal-rescue-or-great-scam-a-complete-guide-by-alison-hector/

Quick guide to animal rescue credibility
http://petadvocatesnetwork.org/wordpress/2012/12/07/quick-guide-to-animal-rescue-credibility-by-alison-hector/

Warning signs of a bad rescue
http://www.examiner.com/article/warning-signs-of-a-bad-rescue

NYC No Kill Animal Advocacy what to look for in good or bad rescues
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=780928188672442&set=t.100006390544565&type=1&theater

What is pet flipping
http://petcenter.hubpages.com/hub/What-is-Pet-Flipping

How to spot a dog flipper
http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-spot-a-dog-flipper

A plea to the rescue community
https://www.facebook.com/notes/advocates-for-georgia-shelter-cats/a-plea-to-the-rescue-community-by-whitney-horne/475149502506504?pnref=story

Do not adopt – warnings on scams, rescues and individual people
http://www.dnapets.org/signup.aspx

DNR/DNA list
http://ourdnalist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/arechiga-auralia.html

Animal Rescue’s scams and alerts
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Animal-Rescues-Scams-and-Alerts/338861852866076

Rescue scams
http://rescuescams.blogspot.co.uk/

Scam rescues
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rescueresearch/

Busted no more animal scam pages
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Busted-No-More-Animal-Scam-Pages/468161816588817

The monsters among us pretending to help animals
http://themonstersamongus.com/imposters-pretending-to-help-animals/

The good the bad and the unforgiveable of animal rescue
https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodBadUnforgivableofAnimalRescue

Famous Craigslist flippers
https://www.facebook.com/Top.CL.Flippers

Petpal Manager rescue management solutions
http://petpalmanager.com/modules/dna/

HOARDING INFORMATION AND RESOURCES

The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium site brings together the work of HARC as well as credible resources from throughout the US to help you better understand the phenomenon of animal hoarding, its impact on individuals and communities all across the US and internationally, and finally, its sentinel role for elder abuse and neglect, child abuse and neglect, and adult self-neglect.

The hoarding of animals resesarch consortium
http://vet.tufts.edu/hoarding/

Animal hoarding according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_hoarding

Inside animal hoarding an in-depth look at the phenomenon
http://animalhoarding.com/index.htm

Animal Hoarding News latest news and information
http://networkedblogs.com/tPKqw

What is animal hoarding?
http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/ask-and-learn/ask-expert/what-animal-hoarding-it-hoarding-lots-objects-can-peopl

How animal hoarding develops
http://www.animalhoarding.com/How-Animal-Hoarding-Develops.html

Animal hoarding the illness and the crime by PETA
http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animal-issues/companion-animals-factshhttp://aldf.org/resources/when-you-witness-animal-cruelty/animal-hoarding-facts/eets/animal-hoarders-illness-crime/

Animal hoarding facts
http://aldf.org/resources/when-you-witness-animal-cruelty/animal-hoarding-facts/

PetWatch New Jersey warning signs of animal hoarder
http://www.pwnj.org/hoarders

Psychiatric Times on people who hoard animals
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/people-who-hoard-animals

Cat hoarders beware of ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ a comprehensive look
http://www.manhattancats.com/Articles/cat_hoarders.htm

TNR AND HELPING FERAL CATS

Helping stray and feral cats
http://pets.webmd.com/cats/helping-stray-and-feral-cats

Making a shelter for feral cats in the winter
http://blog.theanimalrescuesite.com/feralshelteridea/?

Feral Cat Assistance and Trapping
Do you need help with free roaming cats? Want to help them but don’t have the resources and don’t know where to begin?
https://www.facebook.com/FeralTrapping
http://www.feraltrapping.com/FCAT/Home.html

Alley Cat Allies
https://www.facebook.com/AlleyCatAllies
http://www.alleycat.org/

TNR – Feral Fixers
Practicing and Promoting Trap-Neuter-Return in Illinois have lots of helpful information on how to run a TNR group
https://www.facebook.com/feralfixers
http://feralfixers.org/

Project Pets Spay Neuter Love
https://www.facebook.com/SpayNeuterLove
http://spayneuterlove.com/

Examples of various foundations such as Fixit “Get Your Fix”
http://fixit-foundation.org/getyourfix/users/searchForClinic/Search.miles:all/Search.state:TX?

Google area for example “Cheap spey and neuter” another example
http://www.texasforthem.org/contact/

Facebook group to help animals being given away on Craigslist
https://www.facebook.com/groups/F.Them/

LOST AND FOUND PETS

National adoptable and lost and found database from hundreds of animal shelters in the US and Canada. Breed search, lost and found pet matching service. Can look up animals here with shelter’s zip code. Go to right side look for location then use this shelter list; left side click species; animals for adoption. It is updated every hour and will tell you how long an animal has been there and start getting twitchy when it approaches two weeks but if intake #’s are high, two weeks may not apply. Just need to move animals out asap
http://petharbor.com/

Tips for finding lost and missing pets
http://www.catsinthebag.org/

What to do if you lose your pet
https://www.petfinder.com/cats/lost-and-found-cats/lost-pet/

Missing pet advice
http://www.missingpet.net/advice/

Dogs lost and found in the UK
http://www.doglost.co.uk/

National Lost Dog Recovery System
https://www.lostmydoggie.com/

GENERAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES

Pet Breeds
http://www.petbreeds.com/

Ten things every cat owner should remember
http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com/ten-things-every-cat-owner-should-remember/

26 hacks that will make any cat’s life easier
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/26-hacks-that-will-make-any-cat-owners-life-easier?

Feeding your cats – the basis of feline nutrition
http://www.catinfo.org/

Cat nutrition
http://www.catnutrition.org/

How to care for orphaned kittens less than three weeks of age
http://m.wikihow.com/Care-for-Orphaned-Kittens-Less-Than-Three-Weeks-of-Age

Dog body language decoder app
http://www.dogdecoder.com/

20 pit bulls who are just big softies
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/84239918/

Why choose a shelter dog
https://positively.com/animal-advocacy/rescue-dogs/why-choose-a-shelter-dog/

Ideas for pet treats
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/everyday-cooking/more-meal-ideas/pet-food/pet-treats/

How pet food is killing your dog
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546512/How-pet-food-killing-dog-feeding-parsnips-yoghurt.html

Potentially dangerous items for your pet
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/AnimalHealthLiteracy/ucm186940.htm?

Ten most common pet toxins
http://www.aspca.org/blog/ten-most-common-pet-toxins-2014?

15 plants that are toxic for your pets
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2014/03/24/15-poisonous-plants.aspx

34 plants that can kill your cat or dog
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3111669/The-34-garden-plants-kill-dog-cat-TV-gardener-Charlie-Dimmock-issues-warning-common-flowers-shrubs-trees-harm-pet.html

Useful links on veterinary information, parasites, etc.
http://www.ashelterfriend.org/Pages/HelpfulLinks.aspx

Natural remedies for pets
http://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/black_walnut_hull_tincture.html

Natural flea control
http://www.diatomaceousearth.com/natural-flea-control-for-cats/

Disaster preparedness
http://angelsonwheels.org/pet-safety/prepare-for-disaster/
http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/disaster-preparedness

Caring for FIV and FLV cats
http://www.ahasg.com/caring%20for%20fiv%20and%20flv%20cats.html

How to remove cat urine from carpets
http://www.catsofaustralia.com/urinestainremoval.htm#.UkzAByRolQE

Renowned orthopaedic vet in the UK for wheelchairs etc
http://www.fitzpatrickreferrals.co.uk/

Wheelchairs for pets
http://eddieswheels.com/

What classifies as animal abuse
http://www.animalshelter.org/pet-tips/991/What_Classifies_as_Animal_Abuse.html

25 creative ways to help shelter pets
http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/25-creative-ways-to-help-animal-shelters

Simple ways to help shelter pets
http://blog.adoptandshop.org/simple-ways-help-shelter-pets/

Unusual donations for shelters and rescue groups
https://www.petfinder.com/helping-pets/information-on-helping-pets/unusual-donations-for-shelters-rescue-groups/

A letter to my former family from a shelter cat
https://medium.com/philosophy-logic/42f0e63e166f

Animal law source relating to shelters
https://www.facebook.com/animallawsource.org?notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite

Rescue Revolution
http://www.rescuerevolution.co/#!about/c6mv

Rescue Revolution on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/rescuerevolution1?

Picture Gallery
500+ memes and infographics on cats and dogs and shelters
https://endtrophyhuntingnow.com/2014/08/25/rescue-picture-gallery-3/

 Homeless pets - Shelters LOST must keep

Homeless pets - TNR shelters should not euth

Homeless pets - Spay and neuter your pets infog USE

Homeless pets - Spey or number of young

Homeless pets - Abandoned laboratory he's not going to a good home

Homeless pets - Abandoned how shelter pets are brokered for experimentation

Homeless pets - Shelters black bags don't let me end up like this

General

Discussion Between Hunters And An Anti

2 Comments

Anti: This was almost certainly a set-up and this is just another piece of hunting porn a la Mark Sullivan.

Company: Thank you for taking the time to comment on this video. We would like to inform you that this was not a setup. This company has, and never will, create situations like this to promote videos. This happened on a normal hunt, where the group of hunters had the intention to kill the lioness as quickly as possible.  Hunters normally don’t have the desire to let their prey suffer, and I assure you the hunters in this group did not want to cause a charge deliberately. Thanks again for your input.

Anti: Unfortunately there are a lot of hunters that do enjoy to see their prey suffer. If you don’t believe me trying going over to the Facebook pages of some of the hunters and you will find out.

Company: I agree, and they are mostly responsible for the hate anti-hunters have. I can assure you this was not the case here. Many hunters like to leave a wounded animals for an hour or so, then it’s safer to follow up. The animal might have died, or at least stiffen up. With this lioness everybody decided to take the risk and go after her to stop the suffering quicker. Believe it or not, most hunters I know do care about the animal also.

Anti: Then the ethical hunters need to sort out the unethical ones who enjoy inflicting suffering and setting packs of dogs on caracals and bears, etc. and then boasting about it. This is despicable and in the end will destroy the hunting industry. Something needs to be done about it.

Hunter: You can’t put all hunters in the same category. I have the utmost respect for any animal I harvest and always ensure a quick and clean kill.

Commenter 1: If you had respect for the animal, you wouldn’t be killing it, you ignorant piece of shit.

Hunter: Respect does not mean you have to leave it alone. Animals cannot maintain themselves like hundreds of years ago because man has moved in on their territory, fenced them in or fenced them out. Now it’s up to SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT to ensure the species survive. Even if you don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s not true.

You are so fucking dumb I don’t know where to begin. You know what your probably way to fucking stupid to even comprehend that hunting has been around since life on earth. I respect the meat the animal provides and that it is another form of life just as I am. Go to the grocery store before it closes you fucking pathetic piece of shit.

Anti: Leaving hunters to manage conservation is like leaving alcoholics to manage a wine cellar.

Hunter: You are a total fucking moron. Do you realize hunters manage almost all conservation? All the game laws were put in place by hunters. Go see how set up it is when you get ripped to fucking shreds by that lion. God damn you people are as ignorant as they get.

Company: It’s not the same. You cannot compare game (good thing) to alcohol (bad thing). It’s more like: Leave people that love wildlife in charge of managing wildlife. Hunters protect wildlife, similar to a sheep farmer protecting his sheep. Kill all and you have nothing left to continue working. Breed more and increase the population, and therefore your income also. Hunting outfitters increase game population.

Commenter:  These idiots always invent stupid ideas to defend themselves. Saying that hunters don’t like to see animal suffer is a vulgar joke after all they are killing an animal for no reason except for their ‘fun’.

Anti: You are so right. They are so full of bullshit.  They like to think they are brave but they are so cowardly they don’t even have the guts to use the proper word for the killing they do. They use the word ‘harvesting’ like the animal is a vegetable or some grain. How despicable!  How is that respecting an animal’s life or death?

Commenter 1: As ignorant as you can get.  It’s a lot more ignorant saying “God damn you” to someone who is speaking out for animals, against people who murder them for fun.

Commenter 2: I couldn’t agree more.  While plants are living beings too, we usually don’t feel their pain just because they don’t show us emotions like animals do. use of word harvesting is downright pathetic. By any chance are you associated with some organization that work for animal rights?

Anti: Yes I am an ARA (animal rights activist or advocate).

Hunter: Let me put it down in basics. I’d like to point out how retarded you sound. plain and simple, you’re an activist retard. Ur expecting the world is to work in a specific manner in which wildlife isn’t killed for sport, food, or in whatever other way you are assuming an animal may be killed for.  Well it is, and it will always be killed, whether for sport, fun, food, or defence. Whether you or thousands of other people want to believe it to be truth. there are people who live in the countries that these animals are hunted in and protect them in ways which don’t appeal to you but has kept these animals alive.

So if you are so eager to help these animals why are you on Youtube watching hunting films? Shouldn’t you be out there in the savannahs in a hut making sure poachers and hunters are shooting the animals? Or are you some kind of internet hippy just trying to comment stupid shit on things u have no clue about?

Company: Sorry for the late reply. I was away filming a leopard hunt. Before you criticize me, please read the complete post:

Five years ago there was NO wildlife in the area. NONE. Not even an impala. Everything was poached out by local miners and villagers alike.  An avid hunter and conservationist asked the government to step in and proclaim the area to be a hunting area. Strange, since there are no animals, you would say. But there I was, 5 years later, filming a leopard hunt. Because the area was not protected, it means that poachers can be shot on sight (Zimbabwean law).

Animals started to move back into the area. First only duiker and impala, then kudu followed. Later zebra joined in. While on the hunt, I put up trail cameras, and have photos of two different males and three females. One of these males was hunted. The first one in 5 years, and only one will be hunted. The income generated will pay for the area to be protected for another year. Next year there will be even more game, which will be protected because it can be afforded to have an anti-poaching team in the area.

There is no way that you can say this hunter does not care for wildlife. Yes, he killed one leopard, he also shot one zebra, but look at what he has accomplished!

I saw cattle farmers and leopards getting along, where previously the cattle farmer will poison leopards. The farmers also gets a reward after the lion hunt, therefore he leaves the other leopard to live.

To sum up: I have respect for all ARAs on Facebook, Youtube etc, but there are people fighting the same fight you are, but in different ways. You need to be open to accept this fact. Not all hunters are poachers.

Thanks again for your input, I hope to hear from you soon.

Hunter: Wow You are as low as they come…Go eat a fucking leaf dumb fuck while I eat my steak.

Anti: People like you have a serious problem in that they can’t see how stupid they themselves are, and project that stupidity onto others. Read your statements and you will see they are the words of an uncivilized and uneducated imbecile. Still there is no shortage of those where you come from, where they have gone too far on the dumbing down.

Company: I haven’t seen a reply on my post about the leopard hunt. I’m not trying to pick a fight, I would honestly like to hear your opinion on the situation in Zimbabwe. Is this type of hunting a good thing, or still not acceptable to you as an ARA activist?

Anti: It’s wrong to kill any animal for anything other than need to survive for food and even that is disputable,  It is especially wrong to kill as a sport. How can normal people enjoy to end a creature’s life for a thrill?  The answer is they can’t, so it follows the people that do these things are NOT normal.

Hunter: Yea there are more people in the world that do it than don’t so you are the weird one. Many people live off the meat they take. Not everyone wants to be a skinny vegan.

Anti: Really so who eats cats?  Yes it’s true hunters try to make out that the antis are the weird ones.  However if you actually look at the surveys carried out you will see that every survey you look at says 85% to 95% of people are against trophy hunting in all its forms and actually trophy hunters are an extremely small minority of 3 to 5% at most.

Company: If killing one will save the species, it cannot be wrong, in my opinion. Thanks for your input, the world would be a dull place if everybody always agreed on everything.

Hunter: I never said I was for trophy hunting did I? I kill only what I eat. There is nothing wrong with having a few mounts on the wall as long as you ate the animal. I don’t know about lion but bobcat and mountain lion are some of the best eating you can get. I know some people go out and kill for the sake of killing but that is absolutely immoral. You may not think so but I highly respect the life of another animal. I never wish to see any suffering. I respect your opinion and choices but I have my own as well so I wish you do the same for me. No need to keep arguing.

Anti: Get an education. Did you know that thanks to people with your stupid ideas there are less lions left than jaguars?There are farmed lions who are sick due to weakened immune systems as they are taken away from their mothers shortly after birth, and many have TB and feline HIV.  Sick practices and all people involved in this are sick!

Hunter :I am done arguing with an idiot. Go die in a hole you worthless cunt.

Hunter: Wow I just read some of your other comments and you really are a psychopath. You belong in a mental institution.

Anti: Oh yes, sure. Well it would be very nice for you hunters if what you were saying was true. Hunters are the stupid mental cases who have a mass compulsion to spend small fortunes buying expensive camo so they can dress up to try to like a tree and make a treehouse so they can hide in one and then they call antis tree-huggers and treetards. What a joke.

Your day is over, now you have to face the truth which is that people who enjoy killing animals are the ones who are in fact sick in the head. We already have all the evidence we need. 99% of serial killers abused and killed animals before they turned their attentions to humans. Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s hunters who are the psychos.

Thank you for this conversation which as it is typical of an exchange between hunters and antis it will be reproduced elsewhere – without names – as an example.

[Thanks to the hunting company for their courteous responses along with their helpfulness in allowing this conversation on their Youtube video comments.  In recognition of this, the name of their company has not been mentioned.]

 

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Lion Farming and Canned Lion Hunting

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If people knew the truth about what happens in lion farming and canned lion hunting, most would want it stopped immediately.  I believe it is a case of getting the word out there, so everyone knows. If it can be made unacceptable to be seen or heard to be petting or walking with lion cubs due to its direct and close connection to trophy hunting – then the battle will be all but won.

Lion farming is an un-policed industry and lion farmers are notorious for their deviousness, frequently telling half-truths and out and out lies. These are people who choose to make money out of a whole lifetime of misery for lions in captivity only to end their life early as fodder for psychopathic “trophy hunters”, people who choose to spend tens of thousands this way rather than help animals or people they choose to kill.

Lion farming – or canned hunting – starts with taking the cubs from their mothers a few hours after birth and keeping them separate in spite of their cries. As there is only a small window of time where cubs can be petted of about three months so there needs to be a constant supply of cubs and the lionesses are used as breeding machines. What happens to those lions once they are too old to breed, or the cubs when they are too old to be petted, and too old to be walked with at only one year old? Cubs are often declawed at least on the front paws which is an extremely painful process akin to amputation.

Canned hunting is a brutal practice where on the surface of it, outfits under various guises of safari parks, farms, lodges, reserves and retreats, appear to love and care for lions – often stated to be orphaned lions – are in fact lion farms. Tourists pay large sums of money to visit and extra to pet cubs and ‘walk with lions’ as if it were a Butlins or Pontins holiday camp. The reality behind the scenes is something far different. These places are more like concentration camps for the lions.

Also deceived are volunteers from all over the world who come from all the world and often pay thousands for the privilege of being able to help care for the so-called ‘orphaned’ lion cubs. These places are set up in such a way that even the volunteers who work there can be deceived as to what is really going on. The volunteers may stay there for week and not realize that the place where they have volunteered is far from what they thought, a place to help animals but rather it is a place where they are mercilessly tortured and used, locked up and forced to walk with tourists like a dog instead of roaming free.

Lion cubs are often used in various publicity campaigns, including being hired out for weddings or other events. For example, he ‘psychic’ ‘spiritualist medium’ John Edward claims to know about canned hunting, but nevertheless posted pictures of himself petting cubs and walking with young lions on his Facebook page. He says he did the research and the place he visited, Ukutula, are known to be involved in canned hunting and supply trophy hunters. The truth is that probably John Edward’s ‘research’ amounted to a single question during a telephone call.  [Let’s leave this unspoken but you know that I know but it’s OK.]

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No matter what they say, the vast majority of the outfits that provide cub petting and walks with lions DO provide lions for canned hunting. It is only extremely rarely that lions are genuinely orphaned. Or else what do they do with them? Lion cubs can no longer be petted with after only four months old, and no longer walked with after they are a year old.

The demand from zoos or circuses is now very much reduced due to the ever increasing legislation against animals being used in this way, but the demand for lion parts especially lion bones for so-called tiger bone wine along with people who want to eat lion meat, means that a dead lion is worth a lot of money.

It is not surprising the people who do these horrible things for profit tell lies about it. Just like the puppy mill breeders don’t want people to know or see the truth about the dogs they breed. On the face of it, it looks innocent. The terrible cruelty is carried on behind the scenes.

There are hundreds of game farms in South Africa alone with many thousands of lions who were taken from their mothers shortly after birth and hand-reared, destined for a short life to be ended in a horrible way when they are often drugged taken to fenced off enclosure – the reason it is called ‘canned’ hunting – to be killed by a trophy hunter. Anyone can go on the internet and buy a lion for this purpose from any number of establishments and suppliers.

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As many as half the lions killed in canned trophy hunting are killed by bow and arrow as the preferred weapon. It is more difficult to kill an animal with a bow and arrow and can be very distressing and painful. Many bowhunters are in fact sadists who enjoy the extra pain and distress that being killed this way usually causes. In order to preserve the head intact for the taxidermist often the animals are not shot in the head and whether shot by gun or by bow, often it takes several attempts to kill. In addition to this, many hunters are bad shots so it takes several attempts to kill the animal.

In the wild, lion cubs stay with their mother for two years where they learn how to hunt along with various social behaviours. In the natural state, lionesses have a litter about once every three years, but in lion farming, lionesses are forced to give birth over and over again, but are never allowed to keep the cubs.  They grieve and mourn terribly for cubs that are taken away from them. This is cruelty beyond belief.

The truth is that while humans enjoy petting and walking with cubs, it is not enjoyable for the cubs to be mauled by humans in that way and being made to walk like a dog. Having been taken away from their mother and hand-reared in a completely unnatural situation, the cubs simply don’t know any different.

Once reared in this way, the lions can never be released into the wild, as they have never learnt from their mother how to hunt and so they will always be magnetized to return to humans to supply their food. So the same people that hand-rear them in a false unnatural world, betray them to be sold to die an often painful death at the hands of an often amateur hunter. The lions cannot fail but understand that something is terribly wrong but there is no way for them to understand what that is.

There are pictures of lions at these farms showing that they are far too thin and clearly underfed and undernourished. Photographs also show that these animals look bored and unhappy and frustrated with their lives, as they are deprived of a natural life in the wild and all that would normally comprise. They are forced to do things that are unnatural, like walk with people as if they were dogs, and live in a unnatural way.

Often tourists are lied to, and unaware that the same lions they are petting and walking with will – at the end of their short and miserable life – be put in a field to be shot by someone who can’t think of anything better to do with thousands of pounds than kill for fun and bragging rights. Some will end up as part of a trophy room collection that can cost many millions as hunters fulfill hit-lists for various Safari Club International awards that involve travelling around the world to kill certain specific sub-species of animals.

Can you imagine the shock and horror for some people when they realize that the same cub they petted or walked with on their South African safari holiday had such a horrible life, with a future mapped out for them with an early death at the hands of despicable trophy hunters?

There are various indications that the true number of lions killed each year in Africa is far higher than we are led to believe and is possibly as high as 4,000 or even more. Many hunters from the US and elsewhere ‘dream’ of killing a male lion and see killing a lion – like some do an elephant – as a pinnacle of achievement.  The fact that most of the lions ‘hunted’ will in fact be canned lions, does not bother them. They lie about it to themselves and others.

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The sordid truth about canned hunting would offend the vast majority of people so the canned hunting operators take steps to deceive in order to pander to the pride and vanity of people that pay to kill animals, so they can boast about how they were the ‘great white hunter’.

They proudly tell their ‘hunting’ stories and show off their photographs taken next to the dead body, perhaps get a wallet or something made out of their skin, and/or take body parts, or the whole body back with them for stuffing and installing in their trophy or gun room.

Lion farming is not confined to Africa, and in the UK for example The Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire charges £250 per person to pet one of teir white lion cubs. As does the West Midland Safari & Leisure Park. As white lions are not an actual sub-species, those same white lions are known to suffer from various problems such as a high rates of both minor and serious birth defects due to in-breeding,

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Inbreeding of captive lions is causing serious problems so there is a much higher percentage of cubs being born with birth defects than would occur in the wild. These lions also suffer many nervous and other problems due to being frequently handled by tourists which is not natural for them.

The practice of hand-rearing captive lions comprises the health of the lions who are prone to suffer far more diseases and various health conditions than if they were raised by their mothers.  This makes them susceptible to illnesses such as tuberculosis which makes the threat of total extinction that much more of a realistic possibility.

These lions do not live a natural or pleasant life and this has been observed to have a profound effect on the lions, so that they are emotionally disturbed, as a human child would be. There are accounts of people who have worked in lion breeding outfits or farms who have been very distressed at what they have witnessed there, such as the account on the Sanwild Lion Rescue site.

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South Africa has an appalling wildlife protection record in recent years fueled by corruption, lack of political will and pure out and out greed. Professor Pieter Potgieter, chairperson of the South African Predator Breeders’ Association, defended the industry saying there is little difference between breeding lions and any other mammal. “Chickens are killed by humans. How are lions different from them?” he asked.

“In principle a lion is not more or less than a crocodile, an ostrich or a butterfly. It’s a form of life. Breeding animals for human exploitation is a natural human process,” he said. Potgieter said that breeding and hunting lions was only deplorable in the eyes of the public because a “sympathetic myth has been created about the lion as the king of the animals”.

He justified the practice, saying the export of lion bones is a legal trade authorised by the department of environmental affairs and denied that South Africa’s approach to captive breeding and canned lion hunting was feeding into the Asian demand for lion bones. “I don’t think that market is being created by the South African situation. That would happen anyhow and the more the Asian tiger gets extinct, the more people will try to get hold of lion bones as a substitute,” he said.

The extinction risk for lions is now even greater than rhino.

The following is from an article by Faranaaz Parker in the South African newsapaper, Mail & Guardian:

“Conservationists have warned that captive breeding and canned hunting programmes in South Africa are providing a source for the lion bone trade. Canned lion hunting is legal in South Africa, as is the exporting of lion carcasses. Lion populations across Africa have been reduced by 90% over the past 50 years, but lion breeders say their operations have nothing to do with the continent’s wild populations.

Breeders can benefit financially a number of times from the same lion. Cubs are often rented as tourist attractions and visitors pay to pet and interact with them. The fee paid by visitors is then fed back into captive breeding programmes. As adults, the lions are sold to hunters in canned hunting arrangements.

Farmers and hunting operators charge in the region of about $20 000 (R160 000) as a “trophy price” and hunters can expect to pay around $18 000 (R145 000) for other services, excluding taxidermy.

But the hunters are only interested in the head and skin of the lion, and often leave the bones with the breeder, who can then sell the bones, with a government permit, to Asian buyers for use in making lion bone wine.

It’s estimated that a complete lion skeleton can sell for as much as R80 000. Last year it emerged that over 1400 lion and leopard trophies were legally exported from the country in 2009 and 2010.  [Most are exported illegally.]

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Bison And They Said Never Again

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Since 15th January 2015 (at the time of writing) approximately 250 bison have been captured inside the Yellowstone National Park and all – with the exception of 5 – were tragically transported to slaughterhouses.

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Montana hunters and treaty hunters have killed at least 150 bison along the park’s borders, raising the death toll to 400 individuals.

The Montana livestock industry wants America’s last wild bison dead. In 1995, the Montana legislature adopted MCA 81-2-120 in response to political pressure by cattle ranchers to stop wild bison from migrating from Yellowstone National Park into Montana. MCA 81-2-120 gives the Montana Department of Livestock complete jurisdiction over migratory bison, which means that bison can be physically removed, hazed, rounded-up, killed by hunters, and sent to slaughter at the will and order of the Montana livestock industry. [IDA In Defence of Animals]

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This year’s tragic bison slaughter in Yellowstone National Park, driven by Montana’s ranchers, has come to an end. It resulted in nearly 600 bison being killed or otherwise “removed” from their rightful home in Yellowstone National Park. 318 were shipped to slaughter or research facilities and more than 270 wild bison have been killed by state and treaty hunters just outside Yellowstone’s boundary in Montana.

Lawsuits are underway to grant bison to habitat north (the Montana Supreme Court just ruled in favor!) and west, outside of the park.  If you haven’t already, please send a letter to the Montana officials responsible for allowing or not intervening in this massacre:http://bit.ly/1p2Txkg

Yellowstone: Bison slaughters done for the season
The Salt Lake Tribunal by Matthew Brown
First Published Mar 08 2014 06:35 pm
The Associated Press

Billings, Montana: Yellowstone National Park ended shipments of wild bison to slaughter for the winter on Friday after almost 600 were removed in an effort to shrink the number of animals that cross into Montana during their annual winter migration.

Park officials said 258 bison were shipped out for slaughter by contract haulers and American Indian tribes that agreed to take the animals for their meat. Hunters killed at least 264 bison through Friday, and 60 more were captured and placed in a U.S. Department of Agriculture animal contraception experiment.

The removals were part of an ongoing effort to reduce Yellowstone’s herds to about 3,000 animals under an agreement with Montana officials.

Ranchers outside the park have a low tolerance for bison because of concerns the animals could spread disease and edge out cattle for grass. They’ve resisted efforts to allow bison to migrate into Montana and roam freely on adjacent public and private lands.

Wildlife advocates contend the capture and slaughter program is unnecessary, citing research that says Yellowstone could support far more bison than the 4,600 counted last summer.

Yellowstone’s chief scientist, Dave Hallac, said the slaughter shipments and bison hunt will offset the population growth from bison calves born in the spring. As more die naturally this winter there should be at least a modest overall population decline, he said.

Tribes’ participation in the slaughter marked a turnaround from prior years, when American Indians joined with opponents to protest the practice. The change drew sharp criticism from some wildlife advocates. On Friday, the activist group Buffalo Field Campaign issued a statement accusing the tribes of “providing cover to the shameful actions of the livestock industry and the government agencies.”

Jim Stone with the InterTribal Bison Council — which signed an agreement with the park in 2012 to take bison for slaughter — said the council is committed to the animals’ conservation. But Stone said the council’s leaders decided the only way to alter current practices was from the inside.

“You do it knowing it’s a horrible thing to do,” he said. “The only way you can change what’s going on is if you know what’s going on and can control what’s going on.”

By partnering with federal and state agencies that oversee bison management, Stone said the council is in a better position to push for the population goal to be revisited, for the creation of more bison habitat outside the park and to prevent the killing of young or pregnant animals.

Bison sent to slaughter this winter were captured and temporarily held in corrals along the park’s northern border with Montana, near the town of Gardiner. The park refused multiple requests from The Associated Press and others to visit the site.

A protester was arrested along the road leading to the corrals on Thursday after he chained himself to a cement-filled barrel in an attempt to halt the trucks taking bison to slaughter.

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Hallac said 500 to 1,000 bison remain near the park boundary, and Friday’s announcement does not mean additional bison won’t be captured this winter.

In past years, bison captured late in the season — when pregnant females are close to delivery — have been held and released in the spring.

Christian Mackay with the Montana Department of Livestock said bison are allowed to remain in the 70,000 acre Gardiner Basin north of Yellowstone until May 1. But if the animals come into conflict with area residents they will be hazed back toward the park, Mackay said.

The Buffalo Field Campaign reported

Since 7 February, approximately 450 wild buffalo have been captured in Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap, located in the Gardiner Basin. 318 were shipped to slaughter or research facilities and some were released.

Additionally, more than 270 wild bison have been killed by state and treaty hunters just outside Yellowstone’s boundary in Montana.

Daily Mail on how mass slaughter hunters nearly wiped out buffalo 

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Deforestation and Palm Oil Gallery

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Did you know that most of us are unwittingly financing one of the world’s biggest ecological disasters and acts of primate genocide in history?

Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of the world, yet they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the magnificent orangutan.

These two South-East Asian islands are extremely rich in life, containing around 20,000 flowering plant species, 3,000 tree species, 300,000 animal species and thousands more are discovered each year.

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Despite having an amazing biodiversity and delicate web of species, with many species and sub-species yet to be discovered, an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for the production of vegetable oil. That’s six football fields destroyed each minute.

This vegetable oil is called palm oil, and is found in hundreds of the everyday products, from baked goods and confectionery, to cosmetics and cleaning agents… many of which you buy in your weekly shopping.

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Due to the massive international demand for palm oil, palm oil plantations are rapidly replacing the rainforest habitat of the critically endangered orangutan; with over 90% of their habitat already destroyed in the last 20 years.

Orangutans are some of our closest relatives, sharing approximately 97% of their DNA with humans. Orangutan means ‘person of the jungle’ in the Indonesian language. It is estimated that 6 to 12 of these ‘jungle people’ are killed each day for palm oil.

These gentle creatures are either killed in the deforestation process, when they wonder into a palm oil plantation looking for food, or in the illegal pet trade after they have been captured and kept as pets in extremely poor conditions and provided with extremely poor nutrition.

Orangutans are considered as pests by the palm oil industry. In the deforestation process, workers are told that if wildlife gets in the way, they are to do whatever is necessary in order to dispose them, no matter how inhumane. Often orangutans are run over by logging machinery, beat to death, buried alive or set on fire… all in the name of palm oil.

Rich Zimmerman, Executive Director of Orangutan Outreach has accompanied a few rescue missions in Borneo but his work is mainly in New York and online—advocating on behalf of orangutans, promoting the cause and communicating the critical need to help them before it’s too late.

Fascinating facts about orangutans

“What inspired you to work with orangutans?”

“I’ve loved orangutans since I was a child. I went in a different direction professionally and it was only later in life—when I realized just how perilously close the orangutans were to extinction in the wild—that I decided I needed to do something to help them.

After traveling to Indonesia and seeing the utter devastation to their forests and the rescue center cages full of hundreds of orphaned and displaced orangutans staring out with such sadness and desperation in their eyes, I decided to dedicate my life to helping them. I created Orangutan Outreach in 2007 as a way to raise awareness of the crisis facing wild orangutans and to raise funds for the rescue projects in Borneo and Sumatra.”

“Can you tell us a brief story about an individual orangutan that was personally affected by human encroachment?”

“Every orangutan in every rescue center has been affected by human encroachment. Whenever there is a conflict, the human always wins. Orangutans—and elephants, rhinos, tigers, monkey, you name it—always fall victim to the constant expansion of human settlement and the destruction of their habitat by logging, palm oil, and mining companies. Every baby in a rescue center was torn off his or her dying mother.

“These innocent babies are traumatized—just as any human baby would be if pulled from its mother. And for each infant confiscated and brought to a rehabilitation center, it is estimated that anywhere from four to nine did not survive.

Orangutans are seen as a pest in deforestation and thousands are murdered every year. It’s horrific what is being done to these creatures… for no fault of their own they are being wiped out of existence by humans”.

Orangutans stay with their mothers for five years, longer than any other mammal. The few that can be cared for in orphanages suffer terribly from the irreplaceable loss of their mother and their whole family.

This little one will have seen his home torn down along with the jungle around in a very brutal way. He almost certainly will have seen his mother murdered along with many other orangutans and other species. Many orangutans are eaten. There are people who like to eat their brains.  The orangutans are also set alight and killed in other horrible ways.

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Government data has shown that over 50,000 orangutans have already died as a result of deforestation due to palm oil in the last two decades.

Experts say that if this pattern of destruction and exploitation continues, these intelligent acrobats of the jungle will be extinct in the wild within 2 to 12 years (as early as 2015).

It is also thought that their jungle habitat will be completely gone within 20 years, around 2033.

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Around 50 million tons of palm oil is produced annually; with almost all of that being non-sustainable palm oil, that replaces 12 million hectares of dense, bio-diverse rainforest. That’s the equivalent landmass of North Korea deforested each year for palm oil alone!

Palm oil is having a shocking impact on our planet. The production of this one vegetable oil is not only responsible for polluting rivers and causing land erosion, but when the plantation workers set fire to the remaining trees, shrubs and debris to make way for the oil palms, it produces immense amount of smoke pollution that is toxic to planet earth. This has been found to be the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas in the world.

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By purchasing products that contain crude palm oil, you are helping destroy ancient, pristine rainforest, wipe out species like the orangutan, and create a large-scale ecological disaster. Think of the consequences next time you do your weekly shopping; the consequences not only for orangutans and other animals, but for us as the human race; for we cannot survive without the rainforests either. We have a choice, orangutans do not.

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You can help end the cruelty by sharing the truth about animals’ abuse. If you agree that animals feel, suffer, love and the truth about their abuse should be exposed.In the UK about 40% of the food we buy contains palm oil.

Say no to deforestation and palm oil

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Slavery driving apes to extinction
http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Slavery-driving-apes-to-extinction-20140701

As primates along with other wildlife are made homeless – where are they supposed to go?  The truth is that just as some people think nothing of killing our closest relatives in the animal kingdom who are ‘hunted’ and killed by people for fun, there are those who kill primates for food in something known as the “Bushmeat Crisis”.

What is the Bushmeat Crisis?

In Africa, forest is often referred to as ‘the bush’, thus wildlife and the meat derived from it is referred to as ‘bushmeat’ (in French – viande de brousse). This term applies to all wildlife species, including threatened and endangered, used for meat including gorilla, chimpanzee and other primates, elephant, forest antelope (duikers), crocodile, porcupine, bush pig, cane rat, pangolin, monitor lizard, guinea fowl, etc.

Though habitat loss is often cited as the primary threat to wildlife, commercial hunting for the meat of wild animals has become the most significant immediate threat to the future of wildlife in Africa and around the world; it has already resulted in widespread local extinctions in Asia and West Africa.

This threat to wildlife is a crisis because it is rapidly expanding to countries and species which were previously not at risk, largely due to an increase in commercial logging, with an infrastructure of roads and trucks that links forests and hunters to cities and consumers.

The bushmeat crisis is a human tragedy as well: the loss of wildlife threatens the livelihoods and food security of indigenous and rural populations most depend on wildlife as a staple or supplement to their diet, and bushmeat consumption is increasingly linked to deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and Foot and Mouth disease.

“Bushmeat Crisis Taskforce” is most concerned with bushmeat that is illegally, commercially and/or unsustainably derived from wildlife, including that characterized by:

  • Illegal methods of hunting (wire snares, unregistered guns);
  • illegal species (endangered, threatened, or protected);
  • taken from unauthorized areas; and
  • unsustainable off-take for commercial trade or non-commercial uses.

It’s not only primates who suffer, all forms of wildlife suffer and die due to loss of habitat, killing and illegal trafficking. Usually the animals or birds are cramped far too close together and not given food or water for a long time, so many die in transit.

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Illegal traffickers steal an estimated 40 million animals from Brazil’s forests each year, according to an annual report on animal trafficking in the country published earlier this year.

The report, produced by Brazil’s National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals (RENCTAS), estimated that local traffickers of endangered animals earn about $1 billion a year, causing untold losses to the country’s natural habitat.

Flavia Morad, a RENCTAS biologist who helped produce the report, said the survey was the first that combines all data on animal trafficking in Brazil, a country with the largest number of animal and plant species in the world.

Apart from the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical forest, Brazil’s vast Pantanal wetlands are also home to countless animals and plants.

The report said that animal trafficking was the world’s third biggest cross-border criminal activity after arms and drugs smuggling, with annual global sales of up to $20 billion.

The survey, which includes detailed maps of traffickers’ routes for their live cargoes of everything from rare parrots to deadly snakes, said just 0.45 percent of the total amount of animals smuggled each year are intercepted by police.

“There is the domestic and the foreign market,” said Morad. ”The foreign market is mainly for rare species.”

Prices fetched abroad vary from $60,000 for a rare Lear’s Macaw parrot to $20,000 for a poisonous Jararaca snake. According to the report, a Jaguar skin can be bought for $20,000 in the United States.

Parrots and parakeets of all species can be bought throughout Brazil at town fairs and markets, usually taken illegally from their natural habitats. Birds sold locally fetch between $5 to $100, while rare breeds shipped abroad sell for much more.

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Every year in the US alone, more than 125,000 primates are imprisoned in laboratories, where they are abused and killed in invasive, painful, and terrifying experiments. While it is well known that nonhuman primates are sensitive, intelligent beings who share many important biological and psychological characteristics with humans, these very attributes, unfortunately, make them prime targets for experimenters, who treat them as if they were disposable pieces of laboratory equipment.

The U.S. even holds the dishonorable distinction of being the only nation in the world, other than Gabon, that continues to conduct invasive experiments on chimpanzees.

Read more: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/primates-laboratories/#ixzz2y9Cm6o8Z

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Primates are also under attack from trophy hunters who are primarily American, but also may be from Germany, Scandinavia or elsewhere, who travel the globe killing all types of  animals for fun, like a game and a holiday in one. Usually they pose with the dead animal for a trophy picture and sometimes take the animals’ bodies home with them to be stuffed and put in a trophy room.

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This picture was posted on the internet by one of the many companies who sell holidays for people to go and ‘hunt’ or more precisely kill primates – even apes, including chimpanzees, our closest relatives – for fun, in trophy hunting.  This ought not to be legal, but it is.

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This is the video that Nestle did their best to ban:

The above video of a lyre bird is both amazing and damning as it can imitate any sound it hears and imitates perfectly the sound of cameras, chainsaws and other machinery.

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New report on the damage wrought by plantations and mining in Aceh, Indonesia, released November 2014  from our friends at Rainforest Action Network …

The Last Place on Earth – The Leuser Ecosystem

At 6.5 million acres, the Leuser Ecosystem is a world unto itself—a rich and verdant expanse of intact tropical lowland rainforests, cloud draped mountains and steamy peatlands swamps. It is among the most biodiverse and ancient ecosystems ever documented by science, and it is the last place where Sumatran orangutans, elephants, tigers, rhinos and sun bears still roam side by side.

But the Leuser Ecosystem exists at a tenuous crossroads. Despite being protected under Indonesian national law, massive industrial development for palm oil, pulp and paper plantations and mining threaten the entire ecosystem, as well as the continued wellbeing of the millions of Acehnese people who depend on it for their food, water and livelihoods.

Will you raise your voice today to call for the protection of the Leuser Ecosystem?

We must convince Musim Mas Group to break its ties to the destruction of the Leuser Ecosystem. As the palm oil trader most at risk of trafficking Conflict Palm Oil sourced from the Leuser Ecosystem, Musim Mas Group must take action.

This palm oil giant must ensure that it is not sourcing, processing and shipping palm oil fruit grown inside the Leuser Ecosystem to its customers—including the Snack Food 20—around the globe.

At a time when the largest palm oil traders have committed to cut rainforest destruction and human rights abuses from global supply chains Musim Mas Group is delaying taking real action. This has to change and with your help it will.

Add your name. Raise your voice today to protect the Leuser Ecosystem.

Read the RAN report and take action athttp://www.ran.org/lastplaceonearth

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Palm oil products in most products bought at supermarkets
http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8517000/8517093.stm

Please note that most of the bread, cakes and biscuits, ready meals and even all the sandwiches at Marks and Spencer contain palm oil.

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Why Trophy Hunting Must End Now

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You might not have heard about Dan and Charlotte Peyerk from Michigan. Charlotte was arrested for illegally killing a grizzly bear in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Her son Mark was also convicted and they were ordered to pay fines of $25,000 and $30,000 respectively.

In court, it was mentioned that the Peyerks tried to alter the date on their camera so that the trophy pictures would show that the bear was shot during the hunting season. The Peyerks also falsified the date of the kill on a state harvest tag and on a Safari Club International trophy entry form.

Later hunts were more successful, according to federal prosecutors. U.S. District Court magistrate Scott Oravec was apparently offended by the lengths to which the Peyerks went to cover up their poaching. “In imposing sentence, (he) commented that besides the illegal taking of wildlife, the more aggravated criminal conduct was the defendants’ multiple written false statements to cover up the illegal kill,” the government’s press release said.

This is typical of the behaviors of these trophy hunters. That is why usually the first thing that comes out of their mouths is “The hunt was legal“!   Killing animals such as lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, hippos, zebra and rare antelope, deer and sheep for sport ought not to be legal and many people amazed that it is.  Anyone with enough money can go to any one of a number of sites on the internet and buy a permit to kill these animals.

There is a bloodbath going on not just because of poaching, but through the legal killing of animals whose lives are sold for hard cash. The law must be changed to protect them before it’s too late as more and more species and sub-species become endangered or extinct.

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Astonishingly this is the hobby of many wealthy people in the US, who would rather obsessively travel the globe to kill as many animals as possible of as many different species as possible – including rare and endangered animals which most of them particularly relish and will pay small fortunes for the permit to kill – rather than to help animals or people.

Each year tens of thousands of animals are killed by US hunters in foreign countries. The body parts are legally imported back into the US. While the Endangered Species Act only allows importation of endangered species for scientific research, there are loopholes allowing trophy imports.

Pro-trophy hunters argue this is good for conservation. Their stance is that the money spent on the hunt is poured back into the community for conservation efforts. In reality, research published by the International Council of Game and Wildlife Conservation (a pro-hunting group) shows that only 3% of revenue from hunts goes back to local communities.

Other research has shown that hunting has almost no benefit whatever to the local communities, although it usually does have a detrimental effect, as it inevitably has a negative impact on local ecosystems.  There are links to a number of these articles on the Welcome page of this blog.

In contrast, ecotourism is a $77 billion global industry, employing tour operators, guides, lodge and restaurant employees. vehicle drivers, park guards and people who benefit from the sale of souvenirs.

According to the Alaska Dispatch – like so many other trophy hunters, who often become obsessed with their ‘hobby’ – big game pursuits in all corners of the globe soon became Charlotte Peyerk’s passion, and her list of accomplishments is truly impressive. Charlotte’s hunts include 26 countries on five continents. She has taken far more than 174 animals to date of which hundreds are registered with SCI (Safari Club International), and she has taken 17 species of sheep in five years.

In spite of the fact that she was convicted by a federal court for illegally hunting the bear, Charlotte Peyerk was awarded the club’s (Safari Club International) Diana Award in 2010, on top of that Charlotte is also listed as vice chairwoman of the award selection committee.

You would think that the Ethics Committee will censure Charlotte, and strip her of her Diana Award, and cancel her membership. Instead the Safari Club International promotes this “stamp collector” approach to hunting with various levels of awards. There are mutterings within the hunting community that SCI members regularly flaunt rules by engaging in shady hunts. The awards are terribly important to these trophy hunters because these Safari hunting Clubs offers dozens of awards for killing an assortment of its more than 500 different “record book” animals, ranking the biggest tusks, horns, antlers, skulls and bodies of hunted animals. Hunters receive “Grand Slam” and “Inner Circle” award trophies, among others, for shooting a prescribed list of animals. For example, the “Trophy Animals of Africa” award requires the hunter to kill 79 different African species to win the highest honor.

SCI has an award for “Introduced Trophy Animals of North America,” glorifying hunters who frequent captive hunting ranches. To earn every SCI award at the minimum level, a hunter must kill at least 171 different animals. Many members go well beyond that number. Some of these hunters have more than 600 different animals listed in SCI’s record books.

SCI has dozens of award categories like:

The Diana Award to encourage women to hunt.

The Young Hunter Award to encourage children to hunt.

The International Hunting Award, based on the number and quality of trophies, the number of countries hunted in, total number of hunts taken and the level of entries in the record book.

The World Conservation & Hunting Award, which has nothing to do with conservation. Rather, hunters must kill more than 300 species on six continents.

World Hunting Award Rings require 11 Grand Slams, 17 Inner Circle Awards at the Diamond Level, the Fourth Pinnacle of Achievement and the Crowning Achievement Award—which amounts to a huge menagerie of dead animals.

Inner Circle Awards include Trophy Animals of Africa, Spiral-horned Antelopes of Africa, Pygmy Antelopes of Africa, Wild Turkey Trophy Animals of North America, Introduced Animals of North America, Trophy Animals of South America, Antlered Game of the Americas, Trophy Animals of Europe, Trophy Animals of Asia, Trophy Animals of the South Pacific, Wild Pigs and Peccaries of the World, Antlered Game of the World, Mountain Game of the World, Wild Sheep of the World, Chamois of the World, Red Deer/Wapiti of the World, Predators of the World, Ibex of the World, Gazelles of the World, Wild Oxen of the World and Wild Goats of the World.

Grand Slams, including the African Big Five, Dangerous Game of Africa, African 29, North American 29, Cats of the World, Bears of the World, North American Wild Sheep, North American Elk, North American Caribou, North American Deer, White-tailed Deer of the World, European Deer, Moose of the World, South American Indigenous Animals and Wild Turkey.

Trophy hunters are usually very competitive and love to show off.  No wonder hunters like Charlotte, Melissa Bachmann, Olivia Nacos Opre, Corey Knowlton, the Schockey family and and many, many more must have been under sufficient pressure to kill so many animals to win these awards!

Time has come that we should stop these Safari hunting Clubs from encouraging such excesses and the endless quest for sick awards to those who have lots of spare money and who call themselves “conservationists”?

This is a matter of kill as many animals as you can in as many continents as you can in the shortest time to be awarded all these trophies.

This is the most disgusting sick sport ever and must be stopped!

I am sure that if the general public knew this was happening, the vast majority would not agree that hunting ought to be a pastime at all – particularly trophy hunting – and there are estimates that would be around 95% of the general population.

To normal right-thinking people these practices would be abhorrent and if people knew what was going on there would be such an outcry that laws would be passed to make these practices illegal.  Yet most people don’t even know that this is happening.  

Let’s share the heck out of this article, with friends, family, and anyone and everyone else we know on or outside of Facebook.

The best way to help the animals is to tell the world what is going on, as there are far too many people who don’t know.

Safari Club International Awards and animal hit lists, awards and recipients: http://member.scifirstforhunters.org/static/WHA/

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Tigers Starved in Chinese and Vietnamese Farms

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A story in the Shanghai Daily underlines the huge disconnect between the conservation lie China spins around its tiger breeding operations and the grim commercial truth behind them.

Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, close to 10,000 are held captive on huge commercial tiger farms where they are bred and then killed to make tiger bone wine and other tonic products.  For every one wild tiger alive in the world today, there are three “farmed” tigers in China.  Farming tigers for trade creates market demand for dead tigers and motivates poachers throughout Asia to keep slaughtering these majestic creatures.

An estimated 800 to 1,000 tigers are born on tiger farms each year.  In these farms the tigers live lives of imprisonment in rows of squalid sheds, sometimes in perpetual darkness.  The cubs are separated from their mothers at three months old so the mothers can breed again to produce more tigers for the farms.  At around one year old they are killed and their bodies taken apart to be distributed for commercial gain.  The captive tigers are often kept in miserable and cramped conditions with very little, if any, monitoring to make sure the animals health and welfare is considered.

Behind rusted bars, skeletal tigers lie panting on filthy concrete cage floors, covered in sores and untreated wounds.   The bodies are so emaciated that they are little more than pitiful piles of fur and bones dying slowly from neglect and starvation.  Death actually can come as a welcome release.  [Source: Youth for Wildlife]

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Shanghai Daily News: Breeding center expects 100 more Siberian tigers

Harbin, 14 March 2014 – Xinhua: The world’s largest breeding center for Siberian tigers in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province plans to increase its population by 100 Siberian tiger cubs this year, sources with the center said on Friday …

The country has been trying to save the species through active breeding programs. The Heilongjiang center has bred more than 1,000 Siberian tigers since its establishment in 1986, when it had just eight of the large cats.

EIA Wildlife Campaigner Shruti Suresh responds: “Tiger farms and smaller facilities in China hold more than 5,000 – 6,000 tigers and counting in captivity, along with an extensive ‘stockpile’ of tiger carcasses, skins and bones.

“The announcement made by one of China’s largest tiger farms is not only a flagrant violation of international law and policy, but is wholly unscientific and ludicrous.

“Under CITES, China is required to ensure that tigers are not bred on a commercial scale and that action is taken by tiger farms in China (such as through segregation of sexes) so that the existing massive captive tiger population in China does not grow any further.

“Further, it is obvious that the centre/tiger farm in questions does not understand the scientific meaning of conservation breeding.

“There is no doubt that these tigers are NOT bred for conservation purposes. Indeed, EIA investigations have found that captive tigers in China are bred and kept for commercial reasons – specifically for the lucrative trade in their skins and bones.”

It’s already too late for the Balinese tiger and this is the only picture in existence:

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The global population of tigers has fallen nearly 97% in the last century so that now there are thought be only 2,500 tigers left in the whole world. Of the 9 sub-species of tiger, 3 are already extinct, and all of the remaining 6 sub-species are now endangered, some critically so.

Tigers are forced to compete for space with dense human populations, face unrelenting pressure from poachers, suffer retaliatory or trophy killings and experience habitat loss across their ranges.   All tigers, no matter where they live, seem to be under attack and threats against them continue to mount.

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There were once 9 subspecies of tigers, but today there are only 6 remaining…the Royal Bengal, Indo-Chinese, Siberian (also called Amur), Malayan, South China and Sumatran.   The Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers are now extinct.  The world’s forests are lost at a rate of 36 football fields per minute, according to the World Wildlife Federation.   This extensive habitat loss has forced wild tigers to live in small, isolated areas of their remaining habitat, making it harder for them to reproduce.  Increased road networks also leaves them more vulnerable to the wrath of poachers and overhunting of tiger prey species.  [Source: Youth for Wildlife]

Siberian tiger in severe decline with only 56 left in wild
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8379095.stm

Hunters threaten Sumatran tiger with only 400 to 500 Sumatran tigers left in the wild
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3514072.stm

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Click here for a detailed and informative article
http://www.youthforwildlife.com/tigers.html

Cat Watch on illegal tiger trade and why tigers are walking gold
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/03/baby-baboons-dramatic-encounter-with-lions-ends-with-a-heroic-twist/?

Article in The Guardian about tiger bone wine
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/dec/06/china-tiger-bone-wine-auction

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Please help by signing and sharing these petitions:

Tigers Reduced to Skin and Bones
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/NPC_Standing_Committee_The_Peoples_Republic_of_China_End_Tiger_Farming_Now/?pv=21

Shut down China’s tiger farms
http://forcechange.com/92385/shut-down-chinas-tiger-farms/

Close all tiger farms in China
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Close_all_Tiger_farms_in_China/?pv=11

Tiger Time
http://tigertime.info/supporters

Dark secret of the farm where tigers bodies are plundered
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252500/Exposed-Dark-secret-farm-tigers-bodies-plundered-make-185-wine.html

Tigers in farms at risk due to malnutrition could be wiped out by a simple virus like distemper
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22812914

What is wrong with tiger farms
http://cat-chitchat.pictures-of-cats.org/2009/03/tiger-farms.html

China stop selling tiger wine
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/330/667/187/china-stop-selling-tiger-bone-wine/#

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Before it's too late….